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Slavery in Sudan | Cultural Survival - 0 views

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slavery sudan war

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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.
  • 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.
  • and the militia is rewarded with the booty that it seizes - from goods and livestock to slaves.
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  • They are sold for between about $30 and $60 or are kept by their militia kidnappers
  • 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.
  • women whom the militia captors "marry."
  • , the war has created another avenue for slavery - the sale of children by either destitute parents.
  • Since the beginning of the five-year conflict, an estimated 2 million southerners, predominantly Dinka, have been displaced.
  • Emilie Schwantzer on 19 Mar 13
     
    This is a campaign to stop slavery, there are lots of specific information on where slavery is happening, and how its works.
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Slavery in Sudan alive and well CNN - YouTube - 0 views

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slavery sudan

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      Emilie Schwantzer on 19 Mar 13
       
      Arab tribes men would come through villages and kill the men and take the woman and Children, and take them back to the north as Slaves. People taken through the raid, and forced to sleep with the animals and deprived of food, and enduring cruelty. Some were forced to convert Islam or face death. Being a slave changes peoples identity, not existing, not a human being. 
  • Emilie Schwantzer on 19 Mar 13
     
    This video gives a great insight on personal experiences with slavery.
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BBC NEWS | In pictures: Sudan's slave voices, Paralysed - 2 views

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slavery voices

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  • Marko Akot Deng Akot
  • I had to look after the cattle, goats and sheep. I was only given left-overs to eat and sometimes nothing at all. One day, a cow went missing and I was beaten so badly that my right arm and leg are paralysed
  • Emilie Schwantzer on 19 Mar 13
     
    This site is great, it has a wide variety of personal experiences with slavery in Sudan
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BBC NEWS | In pictures: Sudan's slave voices, Sisters - 0 views

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  • My abductor, Khalil, treated me very well. I only had to fetch the water.
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Slavery in Sudan-A little boy has his fingers chopped off by a relentless master... - 0 views

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slavery boy voices

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      Emilie Schwantzer on 19 Mar 13
       
      This shows this boys experience, and cruelty of being a slave 
  • One 12 year old boy, Yak, told of how he'd been kidnapped from his village by Arab raiders the year before and enslaved on a farm in the north of Matar.  He told the story of how on a day he had been too sick to work, his master chopped off all the fingers on one of his hands as punishment.
  • Emilie Schwantzer on 19 Mar 13
     
    This site has a few personal experiences with slavery
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Slavery in Sudan - 0 views

www.sudanupdate.org/...slave.htm

war slavery sudan

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  • are forced into in government "peace camps" - where they become internees, but not slaves.
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      Emilie Schwantzer on 18 Mar 13
       
      People are forced into 'peace camps', where they become prisoners or used for military reasons. The same as being enslaved?
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      Emilie Schwantzer on 18 Mar 13
       
      Slaves are mostly Dinka people
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      Emilie Schwantzer on 18 Mar 13
       
      People in small numbers in war stricke areas are taken into slavery.
  • plus small numbers from other war-stricken areas
  • The slaves are mostly Dinka people from the northern part of Bahr al-Ghazal region
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      Emilie Schwantzer on 18 Mar 13
       
      The taking of slaves in Sudan has been going on for many centuries 
  • The government has repeatedly denied that slavery exists
  • tribal conflicts"
  • Many centuries.
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      Emilie Schwantzer on 18 Mar 13
       
      Slavery in Sudan is a human rights abuse in Sudan "Some human rights organizations have documented a variety of abuses and atrocities carried out by the Sudanese government over the past several years"
  • in which both sides take hostages, and insists these captives are not slaves
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      Emilie Schwantzer on 18 Mar 13
       
      There are other causes of rage against the two nations, such as destruction of villages, bombings, massacres and etc.
  • many related atrocities committed against civilians in Southern Sudan, the Nuba Mountains of Kordofan, and elsewhere - including massacres, rape, aerial bombing and the wholesale destruction of villages.
  • Slavery alerts us to the extremes of human rights abuse in Sudan,
  • Since 1983, an estimated 1.5 million Sudanese people have died and at least five million fled their homes as a result of war.
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      Emilie Schwantzer on 18 Mar 13
       
      Since 1983, 5 million Sudanese have fled from their homes as a result of war. 
  • Families are split up, women are abused, men have to train and fight in the PDF militia. Children are taught a crude exclusionist Islam and made to Arabize theirnames and their language. Both sides in the war are using child soldiers and forced labour.
    • Emilie Schwantzer
      Emilie Schwantzer on 18 Mar 13
       
      In result of the war children are forced into forced labour or being child soldiers, families are being split up, and men have to fight in the militia.
  • Emilie Schwantzer on 18 Mar 13
     
    This site has a lot of facts on slavery, it also has a brief background of the war and the connection between the two.
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War and Slavery in Sudan | Jok, Jok Madut - 0 views

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war slavery sudan

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  • the contemporary practice of slavery in Sudan is not the result of two decades of civil war,
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      Emilie Schwantzer on 16 Mar 13
       
      The Slavery in Sudan is not the result of the war
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      Emilie Schwantzer on 16 Mar 13
       
      The Source of slaves
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  • For Arab traders "the nation of the blacks," or Bilad Al-Sudan, has traditionally been the source of slaves.
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      Emilie Schwantzer on 16 Mar 13
       
      The war and Slavery in Sudan exposes the enslavement of black people which has been making the situation worse, if not caused by the war
  • War and Slavery in Sudan exposes the enslavement of black peoples in Sudan which has been exacerbated, if not caused, by the circumstance of war.
  • Emilie Schwantzer on 16 Mar 13
     
    This article talks about how the war in Sudan is not the cause of slavery, but slavery has made this conflict worse, also some causes of slavery.
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Lost Boys of the Sudan - YouTube - 0 views

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Sudan Lost boys history

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  • Emilie Schwantzer on 22 Feb 13
     
    This video is about two 'Lost Boys" In sudan. This video has lots of great information, it has a little on the history of Sudan and how two boys, Simon Deng and Peter Nyok Survived.
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