Arab Muslim masters continue abduction, enslavement,
rape and murder of Blacks in Africa.
MALWAL KON (Sudan) Report from
Christian Solidarity International (CSI)
880 Sudanese slaves were recently liberated yet thousands remain slaves in Darfur and
Kordofan.
Of the freed slaves, 607 were assembled in Northern Sudanese towns and villages and
transported by truck to Southern Sudan by the Government of Sudan's Committee for the
Eradication of the Abduction of Women and Children (CEAWC). They were delivered to
registration centers at Gok Machar and Warawar. The outstanding 273 slaves were liberated
from Baggara Arab cattle camps by CSI-supported Arab-Dinka Peace Committees, and were
documented by CSI staff at Gok Machar and Waragany.
CSI is now providing food and survival kits to both groups of freed slaves, and is helping
local authorities reunite them with their families. Local officials have also appealed to
UNICEF and other aid agencies for help with the feeding and rehabilitation of returning
slaves.
Slavery is a "crime against humanity" in international law. Most of the
returning slaves documented by CSI reported gross abuse by their Arab Muslim
masters. Among the most widespread forms of abuse are beatings, death threats,
work without pay, forced Islamization and Arabization, and racial and religious slurs. The
majority of women and older girls said they were raped or gang-raped while in bondage. A
minority of the females claim they were subjected to female genital mutilation
(FGM) -- a ritual that is the cultural norm for Baggara Arab women.
While conditions for the liberation of Southern Sudanese slaves continue to improve -
largely on account of the current peace process between the Government of Sudan (GOS) and
the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) -- the capture and enslavement of Black
women and children by government-backed Arab militias continues in Darfur, Northern Sudan.
In its report to the UN Secretary-General, the International Commission on Darfur accused
Sudanese government troops of committing "crimes against humanity" and other
"war crimes" against Black civilians in Darfur. Among the documented crimes are
abduction, enslavement, rape and murder.
CSI welcomes the Commission's findings and endorses the recommendation to bring to justice
- before an international tribunal - those Sudanese government officials, soldiers and
militiamen who are responsible for slavery and other related crimes against humanity.
CSI also urges the U.S. government - which has invested so heavily in the GOS-SPLA peace
process - to establish a Task Force to Monitor the Eradication of Slavery in Sudan, within
either the State Department's Office of War Crimes Issues or the Office to Monitor and
Combat Trafficking in Persons.
The irreversible eradication of slavery is a precondition for sustainable peace in Sudan.
Tens of thousands of Black Sudanese women and children remain enslaved in Sudan - mainly
in Darfur and neighboring Kordofan - notwithstanding the peace agreement signed by the GOS
and SPLA on 9 January in Nairobi.
Contact: Dr. John Eibner in Zurich at (41-country code) 44 982 3344, or Rev. Keith
Roderick in Washington D.C. at 202 498 8644, csi@csi-usa.org.
Christian Solidarity International (CSI) csi-usa.org
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