Slaves in the Sudan. (Sudan).Zurich--A Switzerland-based human rights group reported that it redeemed 4,041 slaves in Sudan, during a seven-day rescue mission last month. Christian Solidarity International (CSI CSI Crime Scene Investigator CSI CompuServe, Inc. CSI Commodity Systems, Inc. CSI Commodity Systems Inc. (Boca Raton, FL) CSI Crime Scene Investigation (CBS TV show) CSI Christian Schools International ) of Zurich said the liberated lib·er·ate tr.v. lib·er·at·ed, lib·er·at·ing, lib·er·ates 1. To set free, as from oppression, confinement, or foreign control. 2. Chemistry To release (a gas, for example) from combination. women and children were enslaved Enslaved may refer to:
jihad In Islam, the central doctrine that calls on believers to combat the enemies of their religion. According to the Qur'an and the Hadith, jihad is a duty that may be fulfilled in four ways: by the heart, the tongue, the hand, against the Christian citizens of the south. Interviews with 500 of the freed slaves indicate that nearly all were physically abused. Three-quarters of the slave women older than 12 reported being raped. "They killed many people, including my son," said Anguac Lual. "My master, Bashir, stabbed me in the neck and arm when I tried to stop him from giving away my three daughters. The blood was everywhere" (Zenit, Oct 16/01). Over the last few years, a number of organizations, including a Canadian one, have bought back Christian slaves from their Muslim kidnappers. Within the country, the North-South civil war continues to cause much suffering, with southern Christians and animists still the targets of the Islamic government in Khartoum. In mid-September, government planes bombed the village of Kargoc, narrowly missing a packed church. Converts from Islam to Christianity are regularly persecuted and, as noted above, the slave trade slave trade Capturing, selling, and buying of slaves. Slavery has existed throughout the world from ancient times, and trading in slaves has been equally universal. Slaves were taken from the Slavs and Iranians from antiquity to the 19th century, from the sub-Saharan continues unabated un·a·bat·ed adj. Sustaining an original intensity or maintaining full force with no decrease: an unabated windstorm; a battle fought with unabated violence. . Despite this and despite a history of peripheral involvement with terrorist groups, Sudan condemned the September 11 World Trade Center attacks. It was rewarded by the withdrawal of several U.N. sanctions and on September 27, by the U.S.A. backing away from plans to step up aid to the southern rebels (Zenit, Oct. 22/01). |
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