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April 1999 We look at Sudan, one of the most notorious slave states. Here slavery is widely used as a weapon of war by the Muslim north against the Christian and animist south. In the ruins of a burnt-out village, lie the heaped, rotting bodies of slaves who tried to escape the northern raiders who stalk the southern Sudan. Slaving here has killed thousands of people; the survivors have horrific tales to tell. Matihiane and her children were captured a year ago. They were marched for 10 days, given food mixed with sand and urine, beaten if they slowed and sent to work. On arriving with her new master, he forcibly circumcised her. Such inhumanity has led many to come to the aid of the southern Sudanese. Baroness Cox, is the most controversial. Sitting with the slavers in the shade of a tree, she exchanges greetings and begins to barter for the human booty. Today, $325,000 changes hands for the freedom of 325 slaves. While her solution offers immediate salvation for the few, it could also be responsible for the rising number of slave raids. The UN and other humanitarian agencies will not work with her. She though is adamant; "It would go on whether we were here or not...it isn't going to change the war." Even for the slaves she frees though, liberty comes with no guarantees. The only thing that can buy their peace of mind is an end to the war.

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: journeymanpictures

Length: 19:47
Rating: 4.56
Views: 19520

Tags: Christians  Darfur  exploit  Journeyman  Muslim  Pictures  Slavery  Sudan  trading  

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deeeso (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
what is this thing about black or no black wake up guys and see reality
Vloreet (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
this act of bying back people, is a problem, I think they make the problem of slave trading worse. Black markets happen because there is a market for it, if no one would buy them, no one would take them from thier homes. they may be buying back the freedom of a few but their acts encourage the capture and enslavement of many more in the future. this solves nothing. . . I cry for an answer. . .
noticepair (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Why can't the slavers be brought up on charges of human rights abuse?
hihosilverlining2 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I hear that. But the thing is, it can't be both ways. The one drop rule has ment for centuries that if anyone has even a "drop" of black in their history back generations, they would be considered black and therefore a slave in slavery times, or a second class person after slavery times. Hence anyone even like Lena Horne who looked white would not be accepted and make it in films etc. That's why people are so happy that things seem to have changed minds...in US terms, he IS black!
bebeinpa (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Stop the racist s*** on here-it's totally stupid.
tzin12 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
i never said that obama wouldent be president, but his NOT black, he is mixed, white and black, u see... somalia is a big mixing bowl, arabs etc, a basterd country with no proud, just a big rebel land with no respect for life :)
Itslifeshithappens (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
what is up with all the fuss about somalis not being black? Somalis are black and are part of the ancient ethnic group the Cushites. The only mixed people in Somalia are the banadiri people who live along the southern coast. How can somalis be related to arabs and indians when Somalis have none of their features...we are not fat, stocky, hairy, arab nosed or smell like stinky curry or even worship a bitch with 20 hands.
africanplaya3 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
listen maybee your skin is dark but that not means that you are direct original black african idians are dark too are they african?noo!this is asian brown,i live hear in germany hear many somalis,and they looks all like idains they even don't have afro haairs they have nose and hair like idians
africanplaya3 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
ey somali bitch if you says that again that you are black then i put my dick in your mouth for real you muslim bitch,you are the same race like idians and idians are not black they are asian brown the same like you,or did you thing that people from west afirca looks like you somalias?NOOO!!!there is a big different
SomaliaGreat (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
only white people in africa r people from north africa.

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