The Sudan is an example of Diversity
and Multi-Culturalism Inverted.
Instead of "getting along," the Sudanese enslave Their
people--especially "Christian People." AFRICAN BASKET CASE
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to Sudan...
Slavery,
Murder, Mayhem
Cutting off Hands and Feet of Slaves
Sudan
admits 52 drowned
trying to flee military camp
KHARTOUM, Sudan, The Associated Press, Tuesday, April 14,
1998 - Sudan has acknowledged that 52 conscripts drowned while
trying to flee a military camp outside the capital, newspapers
reported Monday.
It was the first government comment on the incident in more
than a week and followed reports by opposition groups that as
many as 129 conscripts were killed in the incident April 2.
The government had earlier said that 31 people died. But the
opposition National Democratic Alliance said Sudanese soldiers
shot and beat to death 74 student conscripts and that at least
55 others drowned as they tried to flee.
The incident has prompted demands in Sudanese newspapers for
government ministers to resign.
The recruits were training at the Ailafoon military camp,
15 miles southeast of Khartoum, the capital. Many of the men were
forcibly picked up from the street to fight an insurgency in southern
Sudan.
Military service is mandatory for Sudanese men.
The government returned 18 bodies to the families and buried
the rest, the independent al-Rai al-Aam newspaper said, quoting
the attorney general. The government insisted that all the deaths
came from drowning.
Prosecutor-General Ali al-Zaki refused to give a number for
the missing. The Alliance told The Associated Press that 261 recruits
tried to escape the camp.
The Alliance unites northern opposition parties from the Arab,
Muslim north with the southern rebels, mostly Christians and animists,
who have been fighting a 15-year insurgency for greater autonomy
from the Muslim north.
Clashes
Kill At Least 20 in Sudan
KHARTOUM, Sudan, January 23, 1999 (AP) - Clashes between Arab
and African tribesmen in western Sudan killed at least 20 people,
a newspaper reported Saturday.
The tribes fought on Tuesday over grazing lands in the town
of Geneina, about 680 miles west of the capital, Khartoum, the
Al-Rai Al-Amm newspaper reported. The town is near the border
with Chad.
Two senior tribal officials and a local official belonging
to the ruling National Congress party were killed, the newspaper
said.
Interior Minister Brig. Abdel-Raheem Mohammed Hussein and
Defense Minister Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Suleiman met with officials
in the area in a bid to reduce tensions, the newspaper reported.
Clashes in the area between nomadic Arab tribesmen and the
mainly agrarian Africans over dwindling plots of arable land are
not uncommon.
The clashes grew increasingly violent in the 1980s with the
spread of firearms from Chad and from the south where rebels are
fighting the government.
Also Saturday, Sudan denied that it had extended a cease-fire
agreement with rebels in the two southern areas of Bahr el-Ghazal
province and the Northern Upper Nile.
The denial comes just over a week after the official Sudan
News Agency reported that the government and southern rebels agreed
to a U.N. request to extend a cease-fire in the areas ravaged
by famine.
More than 1.5 million people have died in fighting and famine
since the predominantly Christian, African and animist southerners
took up arms in 1983 against the Muslim and Arabized north.
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