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To: BigBull who wrote (33523)	12/24/1998 6:14:00 PM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

(OT) Big Bull, This Christmas eve, remember the 8,000,000 African Sudanese Christians in the southern Sudan. Over 1,500,000 or 20% of the African Christians have already died in a vicious civil war at the hands of the brutal Islamic Fundamentalist NIF Government. Indeed the Government is intentionally denying the Africans food, medicines, etc. and disrupting their local economies in an effort to starve or kill at least 1/2 of the remaining 8,000,000 southern Sudanese as noted in this BBC Report. And this is to say nothing of the active and flourishing slave trade with Arab Muslim slave traders right now capturing Africans as young as 6 months old and selling them into slavery in Mauretania and Saudi Arabia. "Remember those... who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering." Hebrews 13:3. I've seen all sorts of terrible things around the world in my career in the energy industry- but the Sudan situation stands out as the most brutal and inhumane situation I've ever seen.. And do not forget that the NIF Junta is preparing a surprise for you all too, cooperating with Iraq and building no less than three chemical weapons plants currently in the Sudan too..... "Millions dead in Sudan civil war ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ News Article by BBC on December 12, 1998 at 11:07:08: Millions dead in Sudan civil war The ongoing civil war in Sudan has caused the deaths of nearly two million people since 1983, according to a humanitarian agency. The agency, the United States Comittee for Refugees, said that the fight for control of southern and central Sudan had killed one in five of the southern Sudanese population - either by warfare, war-induced famine or direct government or rebel policies. Jeff Drumtra, a senior policy analyst with the organisation said the death count was "a fairly conservative estimate". More than 70,000 people died in the first six months of this year alone the report said. The figures were compiled from dozens of documents and reports by many of the 40 aid agencies operating in Sudan. About 80% of southern Sudan's estimated five million people have been displaced at one time or another since 1983 by fighting between rebels from the animist and Christian south, and forces loyal to the government of the Arab and Islamic north. The report said 350,000 people were also living as refugees in neighbouring countries. Atrocities The report said that both the government and rebel forces had committed atrocities against the local population. But it blamed the former for the bulk of the human rights abuses. "Sudan's civil war has been characterised by an incremental ferocity that has left untouched practically no one in southern Sudan," it went on. The government had systematically blocked food supplies to the south, attacked villages and driven large groups of people to areas where they could not survive, it said. "These are not people killed in crossfire," said Mr Drumtra. "It's a very deliberate strategy on the part of the government of Sudan to depopulate large parts of southern Sudan." "What is going on in Sudan, and what has been going for the past 15 years is virtually unprecedented in terms of the devastation to human lives, property and society in the south," he said. "Even by the standards of Africa, even by the standards of war ... this loss of life and destruction of economy and society is far beyond the line."