Added: Nov 30, 2007
From: journeymanpictures
Duration: 34:12
Jan 1999 The UN aid programme in Sudan may have saved two million lives in the South from starvation. But in the remote Nuba mountains, the hungry claim that UN aid is being used as a weapon of war. In this exclusive report we enter the Nuba Mountains that have been closed to outsiders for over a decade. Only a few aid agencies beat the government blockade to ship food in to a population hovering precariously on the verge of famine. The Nuba mountains are on the border of Muslim North Sudan and the Christian and animist South Sudan, but the Nuba people have always allied themselves with the Southern Sudanese SPLA rebels putting themselves in the firing line of the Islamic extremist government. They used to farm the plains but since government troops burnt and looted their villages most are scratching a living on the Mountains thin, rocky soils. When famine struck last year in Southern Sudan UN food aid was distributed to everybody expect the Nuba. Naima Kuku lost her husband to war then lost her child to the famine. "There was massive starvation, I was dehydrated and had no milk for my child." A local resistance commander reports 20 government attacks this year. 3000 civilians have been captured and taken to so-called Peace Camps. "They're not peaceful, " Nuba leader Youssef Khor tells us, "boys are taken to be trained as soldiers, the girls to be wives for the soldiers." Escapees recount tales of torture. Lined out in the sun, the rebels display their very own 200 POWs. About half are Nuba boys who were sent back by the government to fight their own. Many Nuba claim that the UN's aid Programme in Sudan has been manipulated by the ruling National Islamic Front to accelerate the regime's Programme of ethnic cleansing of the Nuba Mountains. UN food aid has been used to bring starving people into the notorious Government-run peace camps.
Channel: News
Tags: camps goverment journeyman nuba pictures sudan suffering un
Rating: 4.69 (13 ratings) Views: 6815' favoriteCount='24 Comments: 23
Zwang23 Says:
Dec 15, 2007 - Die Engelande haben diese Problem in Sudan bzw. Africa gefplanzt,damit wir immer von denen abhängig bleiben,und die reiche Afrika ausnutzen.diese waffen werden in europa hergestellt und nach afrika geschickt um grosse umsatz zu erreichen, Sie sollen aufhören als loser zu spielen.ihr seid die grosste verbrecher alle zeiten.
mangoandbanana Says:
Dec 16, 2007 - If there is oil to gain from your homeland, you will need to take on the whole world.
garywpearson1955 Says:
Dec 25, 2007 - So, "Islam" means "peace", does it? Then why are the Muslim people who run Sudan so bent on massive death and genocide? Do the words of the Koran mean nothing, then? The actions of the Muslim government speak so much louder, don't they?
garywpearson1955 Says:
Dec 25, 2007 - Where is China in all of this? Flying fighter-bombers in alliance with the Islamic governments war against Black Sudan. Which is why the 2008 Olympics will forever be known as the Genocide Olympics.
mchigubu Says:
Dec 26, 2007 - Thank you AlJazeera and Youtube, you are educating the International Community about the plight of indigenous groups like the Nuba of Sudan. Thanks a lot because such news is rarely put on the spoltight! The African poor continue to die while the world watches on! Highly educative video, keep up the good coverage!
marvin9laudares Says:
Jan 4, 2008 - this video is just like so many other media making a big mistake. The conflict isn't one that you can describe as one between the islamitic north and christian and animists- south. Through describing the conflict like this, it becomes (and became) more and more an etnic conflict, meanwhile there are living also islamitic people in the south. Please, be careful with putting one etni in front of another.. It's not always that simplistic!
muzerke Says:
Jan 4, 2008 - this video is just like so many other media making a big mistake. The conflict isn't one that you can describe as one between the islamitic north and christian and animists- south. Through describing the conflict like this, it becomes (and became) more and more an etnic conflict, meanwhile there are living also islamitic people in the south. Please, be careful with putting one etni in front of another.. It's not always that simplistic!
josephcn1 Says:
Jan 10, 2008 - Give me a break, by foreign media misinterpreting a conflict it affects the non-english speakers within the country? The world is larger than a pinhead.
sirwallaby Says:
Jan 11, 2008 - black sudan?lol keep watchin fox news buddy.
kuku844 Says:
Jan 15, 2008 - this about divide and conguer! it's about manipulation of this masses to kill each other, they'll tell you it's between muslims and christians, or race. this is how human mind is being control. ultimately, innocent lives are lost. it's a freedom fight to liberate ourselves from the evil, the real evil is the one who behind the scene and is not seen at all. we have to wash our brain clean of religeous ideologism and many other mind control method this evil system is using.
manolis1080 Says:
Jan 18, 2008 - its obvius that the Sudanese arab goverment wants to destroy the local population in the south thats why it turtueres local in concentration camps!it doesnt even aloud UN and other Indernational Aid Organizations go to the area and deliver aid to the locals!!!! the gov wants to keep the south (and its BIG oil $ revenue!)under their control , and not let the locals create a new state.. its a big a shame the world powers leting this goverment unpunished..
Dalit5 Says:
Mar 28, 2008 - might I ask for clarification on what it is you are trying to say
Dalit5 Says:
Mar 28, 2008 - might I ask for clarification on what it is you are trying to say
kuku844 Says:
Mar 28, 2008 - Dalit5! my friend! the truth is a self-seeking journey to find a true knowledge, only then can you understand the real truth. for if the truth can be told, there will be nobody who can believe it; so connect the dots by yourself.
Dalit5 Says:
Mar 28, 2008 - I'll take your word my brother.
Dalit5 Says:
Mar 28, 2008 - I'll take your word my brother.
musicxbox360 Says:
Apr 3, 2008 - Who are the government of Sudan? and who are the Arb people? why can not anyboday do something about this? our people are dying for nothing? im not much of abusef person but fuck this government and fuck these Arb people...anybody claim of united must be fuck...
blackstormelf Says:
Sep 16, 2008 - The south wan't to keep Thier,Freedom not to be FORCED into ISLAM!!!The north is all about Religion,and Kissing Saudia Arabia ASS's..The noth is Starving,the south is strong!!
Reda10samir Says:
Nov 10, 2008 - what is going on in sudan is religious war because what so call (jihad) is the islamic warword. I myself serve ass gov in north sudland three years within this years I understan what the criminal northerns're doing in three great regions 1- S-sudan-N-moutians 2-w-sudan 3- E-sudan weo on you who denied our right.
Reda10samir Says:
Nov 10, 2008 - Hey brother kuku do not let your mind betray you, we'er fighting for our right and whoever stand ourway we will handover to the vulture of the prey.
Reda10samir Says:
Nov 10, 2008 - What you call world powers, I my self I call it world wild powers because the strong devour the weak, they know exactly what is going on in sudan.
Reda10samir Says:
Nov 10, 2008 - Buy from me dear all the arablization are're suporting filthy gov in sudan because they want to impose sunna mahamedia( mean cruel islamic way of life to the whole world not just in sudan alone.
emsudan Says:
Dec 14, 2007 - dignity