Boston Globe Never Reported Boys Are Christian

Boston Globe Never Reported Boys Are Christian

Wrote Three Secular Stories with 10,000 Words

February 2002

The Boston Globe ran a series of sanitized stories last year about the boys from Sudan. They never mentioned the word “Christian” or “Muslim” one single time in their 10,000 words.

They did not say that the slavery that damaged these boys so severely is largely the result of a 15-year war by the Muslim north against the black Christian and animist south. The Arab militias, armed by the Khartoum government, raid villages, mostly those of the Dinka tribe.

It is reported that over 2 million, mostly Christians, have been killed in recent years in southern Sudan.

Christians in refugee camps have been denied food and water unless they convert to Islam.

The militia shoot the men and enslave the women and children. Women and children are kept as personal property or they’re taken north and auctioned off. In Sudanese slave markets, a woman or child can be purchased for $90.

An investigator from Anti-Slavery International interviewed a 13-year-old girl who, along with 24 other children, was captured by the militia, marched north and given to a farmer. The investigator reported, “Throughout the day she worked in his sorghum fields and at night in his bed. During the march, she was raped and called a black donkey.” The girl managed to escape with the help of the master’s jealous wife.

A Harvard University pre-med student, Gerald Williams, visited the Sudan in October 2000 as part of an eight-person delegation sponsored by Christian Solidarity International. It, as well as the Boston-based American Anti-Slavery Group, had a stopgap mission of buying, at a cost of $85 each, Christian-African women and children whom Muslims capture and enslave.

Williams’ tales of Muslim atrocities are horrific. Six-year-old Mawien Ahir Bol failed to clean a goat pen to his master’s satisfaction. The penalty: His index finger was cut off. Yak Kenyang Adieu’s punishment for being too sick to tend to his master’s goats was the loss of all fingers on his right hand. Williams’ trip freed, through purchase, these two boys and 20 other slaves.

The American Anti-Slavery Group says that “most distressing is the silence of the American media whose reports counted for so much in the battle to end apartheid in South Africa.” Only recently, and thankfully so, have mainstream black organizations such as the Congressional Black Caucus and the NAACP taken a stand against chattel slavery in Mauritania and Sudan. At one time Minister Louis Farakhan simply denied that his brother Muslims could perpetrate such an injustice, but now he’s quietly accepted the evidence. Jesse Jackson remains silent.

Should you be interested in learning more about the Boys from Sudan, the American Anti-Slavery Group has changed its name to iAbolish. Its web site at www.iabolish.org is excellent. They are located at 198 Tremont St., Suite 421, Boston, MA 02116.