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Speaking to crowd of more than 100 local college students at a candlelight vigil in Boston Common Friday evening, runaway Sudanese slave Francis Bok recounted the horrors of his decade-long experience in bondage, as protesters sought to draw attention to the human rights abuses of the Khartoum regime...
...associate at AASG, came to the United States in 1999 after escaping from his Sudanese slave-masters. He emphasized that he was a runaway—not a “redeemed” slave. Bok expressed concerns about the practice of redemption, in which Western philanthropists help southern Sudanese families buy their relatives out of bondage. “Redemption would make the enemy rich,” Bok said in an interview after the rally...
Meanwhile, Black Students Association President Lawrence E. Adjah ’06 said his group is co-sponsoring a candlelight vigil in Boston Common this Friday afternoon at 4:30 p.m., featuring escaped Sudanese slave Francis Bok. The event aims to raise awareness of the ongoing genocide, Adjah said...
...Short accurately describes Pol Pot's 1975-1979 regime as "a slave state, the first in modern times." His account of those hellish years?1.5 million people murdered, starved or worked to death?is familiar yet shocking. Almost as shocking is the sheer incompetence of Pol Pot's rule. He had barely come to power before initiating the policies that helped him lose it: the evacuation of urban centers, which caused mass rural starvation, and the extermination of the skilled and the educated. In 1978, dimly sensing his reign of terror was collapsing, he issued a belated directive for cadres...
Like Jews at a baptism, Gadfly had to ask the person next to us what exactly was going down in the water. Turns out the Northeast’s best and brightest prefer to settle their collegiate rivalries by imitating the slave galley on a Roman warship...