Children Demand End To Conflict
<The current war, pitting the Sudan People's Liberation army(SPLA) against the Islamic fundamentalist government in the north has been described as the most brutal conflict in which deadly modern weapons, including aerial bombardment, is being used in a purely traditional setting, with devastating results.
Both sides have been accused of human rights violations including abductions, forced labour, indiscriminate slaughter of civilians including children in rebel-held regions and mass starvation>.
Also, time for a change....<Although their grievances are to be presented to Sudanese intellectuals and elders, the children believe the answer to their problem lies with the
international community's intervention. "Our people are the same, they love war. They don't think about us. I know only agencies like Unicef can give me food, education and freedom," says Abraham Malok.
Unicef's Sharad Sapra agrees. "It is unacceptable that as we enter the new millennium, children of Southern Sudan are denied basic rights to health, education, to live peacefully with their families and even survival itself. It is time for a change," he says>.
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