Washington D.C.

July 14, 2004
85 Sudanese Boy Slaves Liberated
Slavery in Darfur

85 Black Sudanese boy slaves were freed from Arab
masters last month through the mediation of the
Arab-Dinka Peace Committee at Warawar, Southern Sudan.
The freed slaves were documented last week by an
international team of researchers sponsored by CSI.

The freed slave boys were among the tens of thousands
of Black women and children who had been enslaved by
Sudanese government-sponsored militias during two
decades of civil war. All of the boys reported that
they were forced to work without pay, and were
frequently beaten and subjected to racial insults.
Over 80% of the boys reported that they had been
forced to practice Islam against their will, while 18%
claimed they had been raped by their masters or by
their masters?Efriends and relatives. One 14-year-old
boy, Mawien Garang, explained that his master forced
him to serve another man as a male prostitute. 65% of
the slaves reported that they had witnessed the
execution of other Black Africans during slave raids
or while in captivity.

The Islamist Government of Sudan has long sponsored
slave raiding in Southern Sudan as an instrument of a
declared jihad against the Black, non-Muslim
communities that have resisted the imposition of
Arab-dominated, Islamic rule. As a result of a U.S.
supported cease-fire in Southern Sudan, the Khartoum
government has recently suspended slave raiding there.
But it has revived the practice against the Black
African tribes of Darfur in western Sudan.

This year, UN sources have documented the extensive
'Abduction?Eand rape of Black women and children in
Darfur by the armed forces of the Sudanese government.

"Abduction" is the euphemism used by UN agencies as
coded language for the enslavement of Black citizens
of Sudan.

Speaking to CSI's Dr. John Eibner last week, a 30
year-old displaced mother from Darfur, Sennah
Abdelhamid, expressed the fear that her four missing
children had been enslaved by Arab militiamen, noting
that she had seen enslaved children from her Black
tribe serving Arab masters in cattle camps.

Since the outbreak of civil war in 1983, the
Government of Sudan has implemented genocidal policies
against Black African tribes, resulting in the death
of over two million civilians, the displacement of
over five million and the enslavement of tens of
thousands of women and children.

CSI is currently campaigning for the U.S. Department
of State to establish a Task Force to Monitor the
Eradication of Slavery in Sudan, and for the U.S. to
act on the 2002 declaration by President Bush, Sen.
John Kerry and both Houses of Congress that the
Government of Sudan is a perpetrator of acts of
Genocide?E including Slavery?E (Sudan Peace Act, 2002)

Slavery is a Crime against humanity?E according to
international law.

CSI is a co-founder of the Sudan Campaign, which is
coordinating daily STOP the GENOCIDE and FREE the
SLAVES?Edemonstrations at the Sudanese Embassy in
Washington, D.C.

Contact Keith Roderick at (202) 498 8644, or
keith.roderick@csi-usa.org

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