Word: sudan
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Modern slavery afflicts people of all races, on every populated continent. For now, let’s consider the case of Africa. In the Sudan, Arab troops from the North (which is controlled by a Taliban-like Islamic government) carry out slave raids in the ethnically black South, destroying villages, killing thousands of men, and kidnapping their women and children. Victims are forced to march north for days with little food. Any resistance is met with brutal physical punishment or death. Once the newly-enslaved blacks arrive in the North, they are forced to convert to Islam...
...situation in the Sudan is not unique. For instance, in another African country, Mauritania, blacks are born into slave-holding Arab families and treated as non-human property to be bought, sold, traded or inherited...
...documented in both of these countries, the vast majority of US citizens are ignorant of this problem. American children learn of slavery only in history class, where they are taught that slavery was abolished in 1865. There is very little media coverage dealing with the atrocities occurring in the Sudan and Mauritania, or with the many other forms of slavery that take place all over the globe. Due to this lack of information there is a lack of desire among Americans to fight against slavery in the modern world...
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...Battle for Fallujah Nov. 22, 2004 ----------------- Four More Years Nov. 15, 2004 ----------------- The Joy Of Sox Nov. 8, 2004 ----------------- The Morning After Nov. 1, 2004 ----------------- The God Gene Oct. 25, 2004 ----------------- The Vote Battle Oct. 18, 2004 ----------------- Visions of Tomorrow Oct. 11, 2004 ----------------- The Tragedy of Sudan Oct. 4, 2004 ----------------- CBS Controversy Sept. 27, 2004 ----------------- America's Border Sept. 20, 2004 ----------------- Struggle Within Islam Sept. 13, 2004 ----------------- World of George Bush Sept...