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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.