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To: Douglas V. Fant who wrote (21196)	10/18/1998 3:10:00 AM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Gang, More on the genocide in the Sudan.... VOM team travels to Sudan News Date: June 05, 1998 Four men representing The Voice of the Martyrs traveled to Sudan in May to provide critical relief supplies to victims of Sudan's civil war. VOM representatives spent three full days in the area of Turalei in Southern Sudan. While they were there, they handed out 1,500 LifePaks, which contain essential survival items for the Sudanese people. Sudanese people in the south of their home country are the victims of a militant Islamic government which is seeking to systematically Islamize the people. Those who are unwilling to convert to Islam are often tortured or killed, and the young are often sold into slavery or taken to be Islamic concubines. The first night the VOM team was in Sudan they met a woman named Asunta whose 12-year-old daughter had been abducted and her six-year-old son shot by Islamic troops. She was staying home with the other two children while her husband took the son to seek medical help. The daughter is gone, and may never be heard from again. When they asked Asunta what this tragedy had done for her faith, with pain and shock in her voice she answered through an interpreter, "I have nothing except my faith." AWENG In the Aweng area of central Sudan, 1,400 government troops attacked homes in the area, riding two or three to an animal on camels, horses, donkeys and even cows. Government troops attacked on May 3-7, burning more than 700 houses, some with people still inside. More than 250 people were killed and 77 were abducted or are missing. Many of the villagers fled into the swamp for refuge. Approximately 38,000 Sudanese in the area are displaced, many of which are hiding in nearby swampland. It is reported that one group besides VOM is giving aid to the area. Yet that group, Norwegian People's Aid (NPA), estimates that they can only provide aid for about 25,000 of the more than 700,000 people in Twic County. VOM handed out more than 1,500 LifePaks in this area. One man in his 60s spent five years as a Professor of Literature at a University in Wau. When Wau was being taken over by government troops, he returned to his home village. Then troops came there and burned the village, and now this highly-educated man lives in a swamp with only the clothes on his back. He is not a Christian, and said "I can't become a Christian, because I have two wives." The VOM men explained that he could in fact come to Christ, and left him a Bible and other material explaining the way to salvation. Peter Atem was a nurse in Aculup Village and his house was burned, along with most of the medicine he stored there. Now he also lives in the swamp, trying to provide medical help for the many children living in hiding there. CHURCH BURNED One young man named Andrea told the American visitors his story. He was in a church with about 100 people, praying and worshipping together, when government soldiers locked the doors to the church and burned the church down with the people inside of it. Andrea was the only survivor, and he bears terrible burns on his body.