Nuba Suffering - Sudan

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.

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[blackstormelf]

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!!

[southsudanvoice]

Long live Southern Sudanese Struggle and those who have fought along side us.. We'll defeated those government forces soon or latter.. by the ak47 or a peaceful way..

[princeXmedo]

HEY.. ANY MOTHER FUCKER WHO DOESN'T BELONG TO NORTH SUDAN IT'S NOT YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS TO TALK ABOUT IT,AND THERE IS SOME ONE TALKED ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE IN SUDAN YOU ARE SO FUNNY AND SO STUPID YOU KNOW NOTHING SUDAN AND I BET THERE A LOT OF FUCKERS LIKE YOU PLEASE TAKE CARE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS ....... BYE

VIVA NORTH SUDAN

[iTuttefruit]

@JoDNakMuay THAT IS WRONG DONT STEREOTYPE!! you guys arent nubians!! nubians are right up in north between egypt and sudan!, it is impossible for u to push us of ur land now, sudan is my land now, we have split now.. happy? i have had many south sudan friends.

[HummadJ]

@blackstormelf LOL, one of the teachings of islam is that there is no compulsion in religion. therefore anyone forcing someone into religion is against islam

[zipcoable]

@teepeechiefbrave there is no white muslims in khartoum!, they are black also

[chocolatebooty81]

I don't think it's a reliogous issue because there are Nuba people who are Christian and Muslim and the people of Darfur are muslims i think it's a racist issue the Islamic overnment in the north is trying to wipe out both Black Christians and Black Muslims and make Sudan a full Arab muslim nation IT'S NOT A RELIGOUS FIGHT IT'S RACISM

[MeesterCrumpet]

@LonelyKetchup32 take a course in grammar

[abdo0309198]

sudan is everybody country it's not just for arab, but some people put their problems on arab because they been pushed from white people who took african as slaves and they stil suffering in white people countries, go out and look so you can see that by your own eyes. come to america an see how black african live!!!! all sudanese are suffering.

[nubamountain100]

The sudan is now redefining them selves,South sudan has already broken away, theoldest indegenous people in Africa, the Nubas mountainshave been left with the old dogs whowant to tear them apart.is the worldreally opening their eyes and seeing the suffering of Nuba,Nuba have fought sudan government for long together with south sudan but when the peace wassighned,they were not given chance to determine their fate, let us save africas oldest people, Nuba of sudan. help them get freedom.

[LonelyKetchup32]

@ceeker248 This is not a Claim, The religion of Mithraism is real . The answer lies in the Zoroastrian faith and Practice , the Roman adoption of Mitharism in the pagan epoch and the uncanny similarities between Jesus and Mithra. Do some research.

[ceeker248]

@crystalsarra94 May The Father bless the souls of the dead and Christians who have lost their lives because of the terrorist Hamas inciting violence with a army they can not defend their population from. but where is the out cry for south Sudan? Palestine Philistine Philistine what MUSLIMS are doing is far worst then Israel at least Israel has limits.