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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Win Smith who wrote (10914)	4/10/2001 11:12:39 AM
From: Bill	Respond to of 82486

Do you EVER consider copyright laws before you post? I mean, at least provide a link, so the source you are using gets an eyeball or two.

To: Win Smith who wrote (10914)	4/10/2001 1:11:06 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 82486

Thanks for that story on Sudan. It had the kind of background information we've been lacking. Very complex situation, not a simple question of slavery like kidnapping young women and selling them abroad as sex slaves. I wonder what Brees, the guy who denies moral ambiguity, would think of this: <<Famine also has forced Dinka to barter children for a few days' food, or for transport north on trucks. Last year, so many parents were offering their children that the price for a healthy girl fell from $30 to about $5. "Many mothers figure slavery is the only way to save their kids from starvation," says a Western relief worker who witnessed the practice last summer.>> Karen

To: Win Smith who wrote (10914)	4/10/2001 3:33:49 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

There has been inter-tribal skirmishing going on there as well as other African countries for a long time. The geniuses who carved out the national borders we have today succeeded in separating tribes that had traditionally been friendly with each other and they put tribes together that had been traditional adversaries. It's clear what is happening there now. Arab Muslims from the north are enslaving black Christians and animists from the south. It's not complicated.