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THE PRESENT SITUATION:
The Islamic National Front (NIF)
prohibits entry to the war zone as well to these "peace
camps" to literally all human rights organisations on the
grounds that it cannot guarantee their safety and that foreign
observers are merely mercenaries and spies for Western economic
and political interests. Nevertheless, the London-based African
Rights agency has successfully investigated the situation in the
besieged mountains. In 1995 it published a work entitled: "Facing
Genocide: The Nuba of Sudan" which affirms that these
peace camps are nothing but concentration
camps facilitating the total genocide of the Nubian people.
Besides the enforced restriction of their movement, captive
Nubas are guarded by strategically situated machine-gun posts,
front lines and mine fields... In these camps children are separated
from their families and forcefully re-educated into extremist
Muslims. They are making janizaries out of boys. All men fit
for army service are forced to become members of paramilitary
troops and then - by applying tactics: kill a slave with a slave
- they send them against their own brothers and sisters in the
insurrectionary mountains. Girls are
abused and misused by Sudanese soldiers - guards in the camps
- as mistresses and wombs for giving birth to Arabic children.
All men and women who are fit to work are forced into slavery.
The Antislavery Society with its headquarters in London does not
agree with the US foreign policy of a total blockade of Sudan -
as one of five states where international terrorists are trained
- and claims that the price for a slave in Western and Central
Sudan is a mere 40 US dollars.
The Nubian mountains lie along
the frontline of the Sudanese civil war.
Although representatives of the UN have managed to gain
permission to enter the war zone to the South of Sudan, the
Nubian mountains are still under the strict humanitarian
embargo. Foreigners are only allowed to send help through the
Sudanese administration to those Nubas incarcerated in the
concentration camps.
But,
in the conditions of universal hunger
and endless military offensives, this humanitarian help destined
for the concentration camps (read: that little of it that
remains after members of the National Islamic Front, the state
army, different militias, police forces and other privileged
groups take out their shares) is just another war weapon and is
perhaps even the most dangerous one for the Nubas. Such
humanitarian help is misused by the Sudanese government as a
trap with which they are slowly but inevitably alluring those
Nubas who are still fighting for the right to be a Nuba.
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