Sudan, Africa’s largest country geographically, has endured a civil war that spans four decades (32 of the past 43 years). But since 1983 Sudan has been devastated by a jihad or holy war led by the militant National Islamic Front (NIF), the ruling regime in Khartoum, against all in Southern Sudan and the Nuba Mountains who oppose the imposition of its dictatorship  and its „ Islamic”  state. The regime -sponsored terror has resulted in the deaths of at least two million moderate Muslims, animists, and Christians. The government’s brutality includes:

Slavery

Tens of thousands of women and children of Southern Sudan and Nuba Mountains have been abducted and taken north into slavery. Although the NIF denies involvement, many former slaves have given evidence of government soldiers' involvement in their capture.

Bombing

Aerial bombardment has killed many and displaced up to five million people. In the last years , government aircraft bombed civilian hospitals, feeding centers, and refugee camps in Southern Sudan , Western Sudan and Eastern Sudan and South Blue Nile.

 

Starvation

Senator Bill Frist, (R-TN) head of the Africa Subcommittee, wrote in The Washington Post that the Khartoum government manipulates international food aid to create "calculated starvation." In 1998 Khartoum used its UN sanctioned veto power to ban all relief for two critical months, bringing 2.5 million to the brink of starvation. In addition, food is denied those who will not convert to Islam. A February 1999 release from Fides, the Vatican Press Service, reports that in the southern Sudanese city of Wau alone, every month at least 1500 people die of starvation, and in the whole Bahr El Ghazal region it is estimated that 700 die every day.

An Unmarked Genocide

But this is not just a "civil war" or "famine" as the press blandly describes it. It is genocide. Since 1983, more people have been killed in Sudan than in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Rwanda combined. This is not an inevitable part of the civil war that has been grinding on since 1983. It is a deliberate strategy by the government to empty the south of non-Muslims and to keep the oil-rich land for itself. Only the National Islamic Front government is responsible for massive abduction and enslavement, for banning foreign relief, and for aerial bombardment. Unless the NIF government is stopped, it will soon be able to purchase high-tech weapons of warfare in exchange for oil, and complete its intended decimation of the people in southern Sudan and the Nuba Mountains.