One of the slaves, a young mother called Amou Kawac from Wotal Wol told CSI:
The Arab militia came to my village early one morning in January 1995 while I was sleeping with my three children. We ran outside, but were immediately surrounded by Arabs on horses. We were forced to walk at gun-point. My blind husband was left behind. The raiders forced me to carry their booty on my head and my youngest child, Deng, on my back. My other two children Akok and Kawac had two walk behind us. They both died of thirst during the long march to Dogg, near Saddama. There Deng and I were separated. He went to the home of our captor, Abdullah, while I was sold to a man named Sama. Sama already had two wives and used me as a concubine. He made me give birth to my little girl Achai. Sama was a cruel man who said his baby Achai was as worthless as the child of a dog. Sama beat me, while his wives made me work hard, grinding gain and fetching water, while they were idle. They gave me no money, no clothes and all I had to eat was the remnants of their food. Soon my clothes perished, and I was left completely naked. Sama also gave me the Muslim name Kaddija and forced me to pray in the Islmaic way. I tried to resist this, but they beat
Me with big bamboo sticks. One day, I ran away and found a man from my tribe who took me to an Arab trader. This trader bought me from Sama and then sent me here to Manyiel with another trader.
CSI paid an Arab trader his expenses to secure the release of the mother and child. The 50,000 Sudanese pound price for each slave is roughly the equivalent of the local cost of two or three cows.
You have given £500 to CSI during this period which will free another 10 people from this unbelievable cruelty. |
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