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 Demand Slavery Investigation in Sudan's Darfur Region
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What's At Stake
Demand Slavery Investigation in Sudan's Darfur Region
Arab Militia Declare Blacks Their Slaves in Darfur
AASG concerned by 'abductions' occurring in war-torn western region of Sudan
By: Tommy Calvert, Jr
While recent reports have drawn attention to the flood of refugees escaping the Darfur region of Sudan into Chad as a result of the war between government and rebel forces, they have largely downplayed the accounts of abductions coming from this western region of Sudan. Black Muslims from Darfur have told how friends and family were abducted by the Government of Sudan and its allied Arab militia forces and potentially exploited into slavery. Reports have also described the abduction of humanitarian workers
According to the United Nations, Darfur has quickly become one of the worst humanitarian disaster zones in the world. By conservative estimates, 700,000 people have been displaced from their homes and at least 3,000 but as many as 30,000 have been killed over the past year. In addition, food and medical aid have been cut off as part of the government's genocidal campaign to wipe out the black, traditionally Muslim Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa communities.
Yet this tragedy has been compounded by the apparent rejuvenation of the government's use of murahilin and Arab militia forces known as "Janjawid" (armed men on horses) to enslave black "enemies of the state."
According to a Feb. 3 Amnesty International report, "the rhetoric used by the Janjawid as reported by refugees shows that the conflict is rapidly taking on a racial note. The attackers portray themselves as 'Arabs,' the civilians being attacked are called 'blacks' or even 'slaves.'"
In Amnesty's report, they state they are "concerned that these individuals may have 'disappeared,'" a frequent euphemism for mass killings. Given the regime's past support of slave raids in other parts of Sudan, AASG is calling for an investigation to determine if abductees were murdered or enslaved.
A farmer from Kishkish, Darfur described to human rights monitors what the militia told villagers: "you are black and you are opponents. You are our slaves, the Darfur region is in our hands and you are our herders."
Another civilian attacked in Jafal, Darfur corroborated reports of war crimes saying the Arabs proclaimed, "you are opponents to the regime, we must crush you. As you are black, you are like slaves. Then all the Darfur region will be in our hands. The government is on our side."
Though both the Arabs and blacks in Darfur are Muslim and the Koran prohibits the enslavement of fellow Muslims, the manipulation of differences among groups in Sudan has been a tool used by the Sudanese government over the last two decades.
If the Government of Sudan has the best interests of its people in mind, if it isn't complicit in the atrocities happening in Darfur, they will have no problems allowing the international community immediate and full access to investigate whether those abducted have been enslaved.
The history of war and abductions in Sudan, coupled with the accounts of victims fleeing Janjawid, should prompt anti-slavery activists to fear that many of the abductees have not simply "disappeared," but have become victims of the government's campaign of forced labor.
In 1983, the Sudanese government reintroduced a 1,000-year-old practice of conducting slave raids against the black Africans in Southern Sudan who are Christian and animists. Raids in Southern Sudan continued until approximately one year ago. More than 2 million people have died in this 20-year civil war that erupted between north and south Sudan, and more than 5 million people are displaced.
Today, tens of thousands of blacks from southern Sudan remain in bondage after two decades of civil war. As the government and the southern rebels strive to reach a peace agreement, AASG feels the government's actions in the West emphasize the need for the peace accord to call for emancipation of those enslaved.
What is happening in Darfur is exactly why the emancipation of the slaves
must be taken up at the peace negotiations. The government has no plans to stop enslaving blacks in Sudan nor does it have a history of freeing the slaves without international pressure. That is why we will continue to be the watchdog on this issue but you can make a difference by sending our campaign message to the White House demanding that they not turn a blind eye to the plight of Southern Sudan's slaves after you take part in this campaign
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