An international team, led by the United States, has verified the existence of slavery in Sudan. The anti-slavery organisation iAbolish, along with Amnesty International and other Human Rights groups, has been pressing for a full investigation into the Sudan and now their allegations have been verified.
The Sudanese Government has been using slavery as a weapon in its civil war against the rebels in the south of the country. Sudan claims to be an Islamic country and when the government instituted its form of Sharia (Islamic Law), Christians and Animists in the South rebelled in 1983.
An "Eminent Persons Group" of experts, led by a former Director of the United States Agency for International Development, Penn Kemble, have visited both parts of the Sudan, during the past seven weeks and issued their report , this week, on Wednesday.
According to their report, "The pattern of slave taking that has developed since the start of the civil war is, to a substantial degree, the product of a counterinsurgency strategy pursued by successive governments in Khartoum."
The report goes into greater detail backing the assertion that this is a deliberately planned policy of the Northern regime, which funds para-military units which attack rebellious villages, loot property and kidnap villagers who are then enslaved.
The Sudanese Government has been using slavery as a weapon in its civil war against the rebels in the south of the country. Sudan claims to be an Islamic country and when the government instituted its form of Sharia (Islamic Law), Christians and Animists in the South rebelled in 1983.
An "Eminent Persons Group" of experts, led by a former Director of the United States Agency for International Development, Penn Kemble, have visited both parts of the Sudan, during the past seven weeks and issued their report , this week, on Wednesday.
According to their report, "The pattern of slave taking that has developed since the start of the civil war is, to a substantial degree, the product of a counterinsurgency strategy pursued by successive governments in Khartoum."
The report goes into greater detail backing the assertion that this is a deliberately planned policy of the Northern regime, which funds para-military units which attack rebellious villages, loot property and kidnap villagers who are then enslaved.