Sudan: LIVING THE NIGHTMARE! ICC Returns to the "NO-GO" Zones of Sudan, Page 4

August 2001

Articles in this issue:  Sudan: Living the Nightmare!, Page 1 | Southern Sudan, Page 2 | Southern Sudan, Page 3 | Southern Sudan, Page 4

“Incline Thine ear to me, O LORD, and answer me; for I am afflicted and needy.” Psalm 86:1

Southern Sudan (continued)

	A girl crying out for the Lord’s help.

I found it impossible to get more than one hour of sleep due to the oppressive heat and rancid odors. For me it was only a night. For them, who knows how long they will have to live like this.

Disease is rampant in this area of Sudan. There are no other organizations going to these areas to help. We took whatever aid they would receive. It left us absolutely heartbroken knowing that no one else will come to their aid. If we only had more.

We also learned about the famine now hitting some parts of Sudan, including the area we visited. From my observation, unless immediate aid is delivered, a lot of the people we saw will not survive the next 3-6 months.

I also interviewed several former prisoners of the GOS. They explained how they were forced into a shipping container with so many other people they were unable to move even their arms. These containers of steel resemble railroad cars. The people in them would be left for up to a week without food, water or the ability to relieve themselves. The doors were locked! Daytime temperatures easily exceed 110º Fahrenheit, but inside the container temperatures can easily exceed 160° Farenheit. They told me that many times people would die in these containers and you would be stuck against them for days. Occasionally they were let out only to be tied or suspended from trees or ceilings to be horribly tortured and returned to the containers. There were only a few survivors of this treatment. I personally met with one and saw over two dozen scars on his body as evidence of the treatment he received.

When a country is at war innocent people suffer horrible things. However, this is usually at the hands of an enemy country. In Sudan innocent people are suffering at the hands of their own government.

When will this stop? At one point in history did mankind not declare “never again?” The holocaust of WW2 is happening again, this time on the African continent. Where are the people who cried “never again?” Where is the black community in all of this? Is discrimination only an American problem that needs to be eradicated? The silence is deafening.

ICC is planning its next trip later this year into Sudan. We need your help. Without you, these people will most certainly die in their misery. You can also help shatter the silence by raising your voice on behalf of the suffering Christians in southern Sudan by writing or calling your elected representatives in Washington.

For more information and to assist financially in International Christian Concern’s TOTAL REDEMPTION PROJECT in Sudan, write or call today.

(Click here for more information on Sudan.)

POSTED:  August 23, 2001

August 2001

Articles in this issue:  Sudan: Living the Nightmare!, Page 1 | Southern Sudan, Page 2 | Southern Sudan, Page 3 | Southern Sudan, Page 4