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Quote: Former child slave in Sudan, simon DengHAMILTON – A former child slave in Sudan has called on Canada to boycott the 2008 Olympics in China to pressure the Sudanese government to respect human rights and stop the genocide in Darfur. Simon Deng, whose family was wiped out by government soldiers in 1970 before he was abducted by an Arab Moslem from the northern part of the country who enslaved him for years, made the call in Hamilton, Ontario last week. “Sudan is China’s chief source of oil. We are not going to fight China, but we are asking it to be concerned about human rights in Sudan,” said Deng, now a US-based human rights activist, when he addressed a meeting organized by the Hamilton Coalition for Truth and Dialogue on Wednesday night. “As citizens of a free country, if you agree on what it means to have freedom do the right thing – don’t go to the Olympics,” he told his Canadian audience. Deng, now 47, spoke of how at the age of 10 he was kidnapped from a refugee camp and spent three years as a slave to an Arab family in northern Sudan. When he was only nine, as he was tending to his family’s goats, the Sudanese army with their German-made transport trucks swept through his village. He watched them burn huts to the ground, slaughter the men of the village, and steal their livestock. Though he narrowly escaped death, only one year later he was abducted by an Arab from the northern part of the country. He was shown a picture of a man with his feet and hands cut off and warned: “If you complain, this is what will happen to you.” Deng was forced to sleep on straw, allowed to eat only leftover scraps, and beaten regularly. He made his daring escape three years later. He went on to work as a messenger in the Sudanese parliament and later to become a national swimming champion. Today he is an American citizen, working as a lifeguard on Coney Island and leading the struggle to stop genocide in the Sudan. Deng’s story is one of the numerous cases of modern day slavery being perpetrated by Arab Moslems on the Christian population in the southern part of Sudan