Sudan's Islamic fundamentalist regime is killing, displacing and enslaving its black African population in genocidal proportions. Over 1.9 million civilians have died and over 4 million have been forced to flee their homes at least once since 1983 out of a current population of approximately 5 million black Africans. (Dr. Millard Burr, Quantifying Genocide in Southern Sudan and the Nuba Mountains 1983-1998, U.S. Committee for Refugees, Washington, 1998) The number of victims of Sudan's holocaust far outstrips that of recent wars in Chechnya, Kosovo, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Somalia combined. The victims are Christians, moderate Muslims and African traditionalists who belong to black African communities that refuse to accept the Government of Sudan's policies of forced Arabization and radical Islamization. The regime in Khartoum has declared a jihad (Islamic holy war) against those who resist.

• Man-made famine is the Government of Sudan's most powerful weapon in its war of genocide. The regime in Khartoum systematically burns crops, kills livestock, poisons wells, and denies humanitarian aid to create deadly famine conditions.
  
• The armed forces of the Government of Sudan have captured hundreds of thousands of black Africans and have subjected them to traditional chattel slavery and other slave-like practice.
  
• Christians and other non-Muslim are tortured and forced to convert to Islam. Churches are burnt and bull-dozed. Pastors and lay leaders are killed and imprisoned. Christians are second class citizens, under the government-imposed Islamic law.
  
• Black Africans living in or near oil fields are subjected to ethnic-cleansing. These oil fields are now being developed with American, Canadian, European and Chinese capital investments.
  
• The Government of Sudan intentionally bombs schools, churches, hospitals and relief centers.
  

What Is It Like To Be a Slave in Sudan?


The armed forces of Sudanâs Islamic fundamentalist regime attack the peaceful villages. The victims are poor black African farm people. The soldiers destroy churches, burn villages, rape women, murder, and enslave women and children, many of whom are Christians. Torture is commonplace. Older women and men unfit for labor are beaten and robbed. Younger men that can not be trained into useful and harmless slaves are routinely shot dead on the spot. Women and children are captured as slaves and many are forced to carry the booty of their captors. Whatever cannot be carried away is burned, leaving survivors completely destitute and starving.

Forced to walk for days, some slaves remain with their captors, while others are sold to new owners. Most girls and young women are used to perform domestic labor. Most boy slaves are made to tend cows and goats. Slaves endure physical and psychological torture such as beatings and lashings, death threats, female genital mutilation and rape. When slaves threaten to escape, or displease the master, their throats are slashed. Many are forced by their masters to become Muslim, and to speak Arabic. Slave raids are one of the most potent instruments of the declared jihad (Islamic Holy War) against communities in southern Sudan that resists the Islamic fundamentalist regimeâs totalitarian policies.




Testimony of Ngong Chan Lual, 11-Year-Old Boy:

I was taken in March or April of 1998. My parents were killed in the attack. We walked for seven days. I was tied to a rope with other children so that we wouldnât escape. My older brother and several of my friends were killed. Altogether 23 out of about 40 people died on the way. I was sent to a koranic school in El Nohod. Our teacher (Fekki) was called Kamal. Kamal beat us if we didnât learn well. He used to write verses on the ground. Three Arab students were never beaten. We were not allowed to speak Dinka to each other. I slept on the ground in an open compound without roof, and had no blanket. Then one day Nur (slave retriever) came and took me with him. We walked for nine days. I would very much like to go to school and become a teacher one day.