Are the Arabs still buying and selling Africans?
• Religious persecution of Christians in the Middle East has reached extreme forms of human degradation: In Sudan, abundant reports by international human rights organizations have documented the enslavement by the northern fundamentalist forces of southern African Christians. According to the reports and experts, there are today between 600,000 and one million Black slaves from Sudan, who have either been taken to the north of that country to work as domestics or tending farms, or sold in other Arab countries. – Prof. Walid Phares, before the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Near East and South Asia Subcommittee on “Religious Persecution in the Middle East.” Washington DC, April 29, 1997 • “In Sudan radical Islamists in Khartoum use slave raids as a weapon in their self-declared jihad on black Christians and animists in the south Arab militias storm African villages, shoot the men and capture the women and children.” – American Anti-slavery Group research director Charles Jac
