- The Washington-DC based human rights group ICC has learned that up to 80,000 Southern Sudanese residents of
the disputed area of Abeyi have fled their homes following a clash between the Khartoum government's Sudanese
Aermed Forces and the Southern Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army.
The articles points out that the troops that have taken control of Abeyi are in direct violation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. Fighting broke out on May 14th, 2008, the troops being responsible for sparking the conflict ... and reporting of various reports that 90% of the homes in Abeyi have been burned down the residence are now displaced.
"Seventy to eighty thousand people are now living in the brush surrounding Adeya. Kids, woman, they need quick humanitarain help," reported Mr Ruben Benjamin in an interview with ICC.
All in all, it is estimated that between 500,000 and one million people died in Sudan’s first civil war.
We are able gospel sayes, "Now the authorities want to improve conditions by disarming everyone - except themselves. They're the only ones who will see the improvement. If any occurs."
SUDAN: The Hidden Holocaust
This moving documentary, based on the book “Faith Under Fire”, provides viewers a look at Africa’s forgotton war -- the longest war of the 20th century. Since 1955 the Muslim Arab North has been attacking the Christian Black South, but today war efforts are intensified with a renewed, systematic, terror bombing campaign to civilian centers -- hospitals, school and churches.