The armed forces of Sudan to capture new slaves 188 women and black African children
C.S.I. : Press release, Geneva, 15 March 2000
Saturday March 10 and Sunday 11 March 2000 - by Victor Akok Anei, Civil Commissioner for the District of Aweil East - the troops of the Popular Defense Forces of Sudan (PDF) took about 188 enslaved black Africans, women and children, during raids on three villages in northern Bahr El Ghazal, Malith, Deir Rup, and Majok Kuom in southern Sudan.
Persons taken into slavery and Malith Rup Deir were conducted with cows and goats stolen, the government garrison Grinty, northern Kiir (the Bahr El Arab River), while those who were captured Kuom Majok and Sokobat were directed to the government garrison town of Mabior on the railway line Khartoum-Wau. A girl who has escaped from the slave caravan PTO reported to local authorities that seven other girls taken into slavery had been killed by the PDF during their forced march northward.
The last offensive of the PDF began March 8 when two of its units, each about 1,300 attackers on horseback and on foot, have left their garrison Atiat north, outside the city of Meiram. One of the units attacked Malith March 10 at 8 am and engaged in battle with the People's Liberation Army Sudanese (SPLA). After an hour and a half of fighting, the SPLA has retreated, allowing the PDF to loot and burn the entire village. About 70 people were taken as slaves Malith. The PDF then moved south and attacked Deir Rup where she was repulsed by the SPLA.
50 people are estimated to have been captured in Deir Rup. The second unit of the PDF after the railway line to Wau-Khartoum south and attacked Majok Kuom Saturday March 11 in the morning. 68 women and children were reported taken into slavery by Majok PDF Kuom.
Two days after the attack, representatives of CSI, John EIBNER and Gunnar Wielback, Jane Roy and Glen Pearson, along with independent journalists, have discovered with horror the charred remains of Malith.
Since the mid-80s, the Government of Sudan supported the slave raids in the black African civilian population in northern Bahr El Ghazal. The current National Islamic Front (NIF) has taken this practice as part of its declared jihad (Islamic holy war) after he had delighted the power to an elected government in 1989. The war in Sudan is a genocide with two million black Africans killed and more than four million people displaced.
The raids of 10 and 11 March, in the districts of Aweil East and West this year are the most recent in a series of serious violations of the cease-fire declared by the United Nations in the northern part of Bahr El Ghazal. The raids took place three weeks after the Canadian Government has accepted the policy of the European Union by announcing a "constructive engagement", including financial regulations "directly or indirectly" in the NIF regime in Khartoum.
The Special Rapporteur of the United Nations, Dr. Leonardo Franco, was in Sudan at the end of February 2000 to continue its investigation of slavery and other violations of human rights. He will report to the Commission on Human Rights. Last year, Dr. Franco informed the Commission that: "The war and the pernicious strategies used have revived and exacerbated the problems of slavery in Sudan.".
CSI believes that there is still more than 100,000 women and black African children living in slavery or subjected to slavery-like practices, in concentration camps controlled by the Government.
In response to the taking of slaves to 300 women and children by the PDF on 21 February, the International President of CSI, the Rev…
Hans Stückelberger has, February 24, launched an urgent appeal to UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, as well as United States President William Clinton and Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Chrétien, to - to condemn the regime of the National Islamic Front (NIF) in Khartoum because of its policy of enslavement of women and black African children - to ask the Security Council United Nations to impose sanctions for the Sudanese Government.
1) - The return of all the slaves with their families in southern Sudan,
2) - the restoration of a secular democratic government,
3) - respect for human rights and
4 -) the implementation of the right to self-determination for the people of Southern Sudan and other marginalized populations, according to the Declaration of Principles of the IGAD
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