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act.  "Forward ever, backwards never" ... "by any means necessary!"

Kamautu

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> To: "Darryn Roberts" <[log in to unmask]>
> From: "iAbolish Freedom Action Network" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Fall 2004 - International Slavery Update
> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:56:09 GMT
> -----
> September 2004 International Slavery Update
>
> German newspaper Die Welt is reporting that Syrian military
> officials have traveled to Sudan to test chemical weapons on
> civilians in the Darfur region. The paper reports that frozen
> bodies of victims recently arrived at a hospital in Khartoum
> displaying injuries caused by chemical weapons.
>
> Keith Roderick, director of the Sudan Campaign, said: "The UN
> must act immediately. And it can start by launching a thorough
> investigation of the Syrian military's activities in Sudan."
>
> "We will not let up the pressure," remarked Dr. Charles Jacobs,
> president of the American Anti-Slavery Group. "The UN exists to
> investigate serious charges like this. If the UN cannot even
> launch an investigation, the international system is broken."
> Roderick declared, "In the year 2004, there can be no leeway on
> the use of chemical weapons to commit genocide."
>
> Full story:
> http://www.iabolish.com/news/AASG%20news/press%20releases/syria-
darfur09-> 23-04.htm
>
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>
> A woman and teenage girl who were raped and abducted by soldiers
> in Western Darfur have claimed that the Sudanese army organised
> airlifts of sex slaves to serve as the "wives" of government
> soldiers in Khartoum.
> "Each of us was raped by between three and six men," said Bokur.
> "One woman refused to have sex with them, so they split her head
> into pieces with an axe in front of us... Each woman was given
> to a soldier... taken to his house and locked inside."
>
> "Every night he used me like a wife. For two months I did not
> see the outside."
>
> The Sudanese government adamantly denied the women's claims,
> saying they were feeding anti-Arab propaganda. One senior
> Sudanese diplomat said, "Such stories are a conspiracy of the
> West to discredit the government of Sudan.
>
> Full story: http://www.iabolish.com/darfur/news/tuk09-19-04.htm
>
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>
> This summer, UC Berkeley journalism student Jigar Mehta snuck
> across West African borders to find and talk to people who had
> been enslaved in Mauritania. "Mauritania has banned slavery
> three times, the last time in 1981. But the slaves don¿t
> understand the idea or concept of freedom because they were born
> into slavery."
> Mehta was sponsored by the American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG),
> which is based in Boston, Mass., and by SOS Slaves in
> Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania.
>
> Mehta returned to Berkeley in August to complete his graduate
> work in documentary film. AASG will use his footage to raise
> awareness of slavery and money for the organization...
>
> Full story:
> http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/09/13_mehta.shtml
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