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CNN - Buying the freedom of slaves in Sudan - Dec. 20, 1997
  
Buying the freedom of slaves in Sudan
December 20, 1997 Web posted at: 3:50 p.m. EST (2050 GMT)
BAHR EL GHAZAL, Sudan (CNN) -- A global charity is fighting the internationally condemned slave trade in Sudan in its own way -- by buying the freedom of slaves and reuniting them,
mostly boys and girls, with their families.
Christian Solidarity International estimates that tens of
thousands of children and adults have been snatched from
their homes in the southern part of the African nation and
brought to the north by suspected members of the northern
government militia, known as the Popular Defense Force.
The practice stems from the lengthy civil war between forces
loyal to the government in the predominantly Arab-Muslim
north, and rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Army in
the mainly Christian and animist south.
CNN's Joie Chen examines the business of slave trading the Sudan
2 min. 5 sec. VXtreme video
I N C O N T E X T
The practice of slavery is strong in Sudan as an outgrowth of
a lengthy civil war -- much to the dismay of the United
Nations and human rights groups. Tribal militias routinely
capture women and children as war booty, according to the
annual report from Human Rights Watch. Earlier this year,
U.N. officials called on the Sudanese government to carry out
its pledge to investigate cases of slavery, forced labor and
similar practices.
The conflict and related famine have killed an estimated 1.3
million people since the mid-1980s, when the SPLA took up
arms to end what they see as domination of southern Sudan by
the north.
The southerners are said to be seeking autonomy and an end to
Islamic Sharia law.
CSI has so far managed to buy the freedom of dozens of slaves
for about $100 apiece or three cows per person, the
organization said.
Among those freed through CSI intervention was 13-year-old
Akuac Malong, who was enslaved for six years and had
despaired of ever seeing her home and family again. She was
abducted from her village of Madhor, in the southern province
of Bahr El Ghazal.
Malong related a terrifying tale of beatings and
circumcision.
"The master said, 'If you are not circumcised, I will kill
you, because you are still holding the ideas of your people
and may try to escape back to them,'" the girl recalled.
Other slaves who were rescued had similar tales.
One CSI representative strongly criticized the Sudanese
government in Khartoum.
"The government is aiming to completely destroy the social
fabric of the Dinka people in this area. They regard them as
enemies, because they resist the forced Islamisation and
forced Arabisation policies of the regime." John Ebner said.
"I am horrified that the government in Khartoum have not any
measures to end slavery," said Dinka lawyer Peter Nyot Kok.
He has been supporting the cause of his people from abroad,
but returned to witness the release of several former slaves.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Christian Solidarity International
Coalition Against Slavery in Mauritania and Sudan
Human Rights Watch - Sudan
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