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To: nihil who wrote (24053)	2/4/1999 11:40:00 AM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Respond to of 39621

nihil, Folks- Still asking your support on the Sudanese slavery issue- please call your congressional representative and ask them to pressure the UN to stop the upcoming slave raid/trading season in the Sudan.... News Article by AP on February 03, 1999 at 21:47:36: Senator: Some Sudanese Enslaved By George Gedda Associated Press Writer Wednesday, February 3, 1999 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tens of thousands of non-Muslim Sudanese live as slaves and are ''branded, beaten, starved and raped at their masters' whim,'' Sen. Sam Brownback said Wednesday. Joining Brownback, R-Kan., at a news conference was Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., who said the Clinton administration ''has done zip ... nothing'' to ease the plight of repressed Sudanese. Two million Sudanese, mainly non-Muslims from southern Sudan, have died from a 16-year civil war and repeated famines that the fighting created. ''This cannot be allowed to continue into the next millennium,'' said Wolf, who has visited Sudan a number of times. In November 1997, the administration tightened sanctions against Sudan, Africa's largest country, citing the Muslim extremist government's alleged involvement in international terror and its ''abysmal record'' on human rights. President Clinton blocked Sudanese government assets in the United States and barred most U.S.-Sudanese trade. Also prohibited were U.S. investments in Sudan and most financial transactions between the two countries. In August, Clinton ordered the bombing of a factory in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, that the Americans suspected was being used to make ingredients for chemical weapons. Brownback spoke before a photographic display portraying the sorrowful faces of people he said were Sudanese slaves. The victims are Christians and animists in the southern part of Sudan, where a rebel movement has waged civil war seeking autonomy for the South from the Muslim north. Women and children captured in the war often are given to government soldiers, who convert their ''war booty'' into slaves, Brownback said. For a $50 fee, a slave can be freed, he added. Brownback said he will introduce legislation to challenge what he called the ''famine-inducing practices'' of the Sudanese government, but he did not give specifics. Much of Brownback's information on the situation was based on a visit to Sudan this December by staff members. Baroness Caroline Cox, a human rights activist and member of the British House of Lords, told the news conference that the ruling National Islamic Front in Sudan ''is committed to an explicit policy of jihad (holy war) in its most aggressive and brutal form. ''That includes military offensives against innocent civilians. It includes ... slavery as part of its policies of enforced Arabization of the Africans of the south and Islamization of those who are Christians,'' she said. Also FWIW I see an occasional Islamic Fundamentalist sympathiser who gets on here and picks at Christian theology. Contact me the next time that happens and I'll show you a couple of gaping holes in the Koran that you can point out to them as to why pickingat literature misses the whole point about relating to God.... Sincerely, Doug F.