Slavery in Sudan | Cultural Survival - 0 views
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It is a direct consequence of the five-year war between Khartoum in the north and the Dinka-dominated Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in the south - and more especially the government's conduct in that conflict.
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Armed tribal militias, used by Khartoum to counter SPLA advances, are accused of raiding Dinka villages in northern Bahr el Ghazal, southern Darfur and Kordofan.
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Men between the ages of 15 and 20 cultivate the fields in the rainy season; in the summer they tend cattle. Children aged seven to 12 look after goats and other livestock or dig wells.
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, the war has created another avenue for slavery - the sale of children by either destitute parents.
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Since the beginning of the five-year conflict, an estimated 2 million southerners, predominantly Dinka, have been displaced.