Regarding slavery, a quarter of a century after our Emancipation Proclamation slavery was alive and well in Brazil. Simultaneously, in Africa, Zubair Pasha was concentrating tens of thousands of Sudanese slaves in his Bahr al=Ghazal zaribas; from there they were shipped to the markets of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Iraq, and other sites in the Islamic World. Sudan itself was probably the locus of the greatest slave trade in history, and few slaves ever reached Europe or the Americas. Other slaver activity was occuring in Zanzibar and, with French connivance, in northern Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. <
2. Perhaps the most egregious case of genocide in recent times has been the death of two million Africans from the southern Sudan. Proportionately, in a country of 28 million the Arab Government in Khartoum has matched in savagery anything the Communists were up to in the Ukraine in the nineteen thirties when they allowed 8 million farmers (kulaks) to starve.