SLAVERY CONTINUES IN SUDAN, THOUGH SOME ARE RESCUED

Slavery is still practiced in the Muslim world as it was in the time of Mohammad.

232 Christian and animist natives of the south of Sudan were freed from slavery in Darfur, in western Sudan.

Interviews with all 232 slaves conducted by CSI representatives reveal a clear pattern of physical and psychological abuse. The liberated slaves reported having been subjected to beatings, death threats, rape, female genital mutilation, forced conversion to Islam, racial and religious insults and work without pay. Some slaves reported witnessing the execution of fellow captives.

The long war of the Arab north to subdue the Christians and animists of the south (where most of the Sudanese oil is) resulted in an estimated 2 million deaths before a truce negotiated by President Bush's envoy former U.S. Senator John Danforth. Supposedly, there will be a referendum shortly to determine in the people of the south want full autonomy from Khartoum. The people of the south will surely say "Yes" in great numbers; the question is whether the central government will honor its pledge.

Chinese oil interests are entrenched in Sudan and are heavily involved in oil development in the south for which they are making handsome payments to the central government. But the Sudanese government and the Chinese will be loath to have the Chinese make additional payments to a provisional government of the south.

Sol, while these 232 have been freed, the fate of the south is uncertain, as is the fate of those caught up in the present civil war in Darfur.

Just another indication of how alien the Muslim culture is to western civilization.

232 Sudanese Slaves Liberated

CSI Urges President Obama to Help Stamp out Slavery in Sudan

WASHINGTON, May 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today,
Christian Solidarity International (CSI) issued a report on the liberation of
232 Sudanese earlier this month. The slaves - Christian and traditionalist
members of the Dinka tribe - were liberated, with CSI's support, from Arab
masters in Darfur and neighboring Kordofan.

The released captives were then repatriated to their homeland in Southern Sudan by Arab retrievers working in association with local Arab-Dinka Peace Committees. The enslavement of these Black non-Muslim Sudanese took place during jihad raids undertaken by Arab militias backed by Sudan's Islamist government during the late North-South civil war (1983-2005).

Interviews with all 232 slaves conducted by CSI representatives reveal a clear pattern of physical and psychological abuse. The liberated slaves reported having been subjected to beatings, death threats, rape, female genital mutilation, forced conversion to Islam, racial and religious insults and work without pay. Some slaves reported witnessing the
execution of fellow captives.

Among the interviewed slaves were:

Achan Mawien Guat - pregnant 17 year-old: Enslaved, Raped,
Circumcised, and Islamized.

Peter Akot Dut Hol - 19 year-old Christian: Enslaved,
Islamized, Father Murdered, Mutilated and Terrorized

Majok Kon Maliith - 17 year-old: Enslaved, Islamized,
Terrorized, Beaten, and Blinded in one Eye.

Mary Atak Geng Baak - 18 year-old Christian: Enslaved,
Islamized, Sexually Abused, Terrorized, and Economically Exploited.

Writing today to President Barack Obama, Dr. John Eibner,
CEO of CSI-USA, recalled the crucial roles played by Ambassador Susan Rice,
while Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, in initiating
government policy to eradicate Sudanese slavery during the Clinton
administration, and by President Bush's first Special Envoy for Sudan, Sen.
John Danforth in placing the issue of slavery at the heart of the Sudan peace
process.

Dr. Eibner furthermore urged President Obama to "revive America's commitment to act
energetically for the eradication of slavery in Sudan" by supporting the reintroduction of legislation sponsored by Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Diane Watson (D-CA) for the establishment of the United States Commission to Monitor Slavery and its Eradication in Sudan (Eradication of Slavery in Sudan Act of 2007. H.R.3844).

Slavery persists in Sudan, despite the signing in
January 2005 of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the Islamist
Government of Sudan (GOS) and the secular, Southern-based Sudan People's
Liberation Army (SPLM). The Agreement failed to include a mechanism for
overseeing the liberation of slaves and their safe repatriation.

An estimated 35,000 Black Africans from the Dinka tribe
remain enslaved today, according to a member of the Government of Sudan's
Committee for the Eradication of the Abduction of Women and Children (CEAWC),
James Aguir. (Skye Wheeler, Reuters, "Misseriya and Dinka Grapple with
History of Child Abduction", Aweil, November 14, 2008). Most of these
Dinka slaves are held by masters in Darfur and neighboring Kordofan. Reports from the UN Secretary General's International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur (January 2005) and from the Darfur Consortium (December 2008) also confirm the use of slavery as a weapon of war against Black Africans in Darfur. The enslavement and horrific abuse of Sudanese captives of the Lord's Resistance Army is yet another facet of Sudan's
slavery problem.