Kirio, Sudan, Sudan
The victim was taken to Kirio, where he was given to an Arab man, who presented him to the entire household. They all beat him. There he was always called me 'abeed,' which means black slave, and he had to sleep with the cows and was always fed leftovers from the master's table. A couple of years after his capture, he tried to escape but was easily recaptured and beaten and tied up for 10 days, he said. Years later, he tried again and was recaptured and beaten and threatened with death. He said would rather be dead than a slave. So he tried it again and was successful, being helped by an Arab truck driver, only to be found by some local policemen, who made him serve them for seven months. He escaped and, with the help of an Egyptian, made his way to Cairo, where a United Nations body eventually helped him get to the nation of his choice: the United States. He went to Fargo, N.D.; then Iowa, and later Boston, where he joined up with Charles Jacobs, who started an abolitionist movement two years ago, the American Anti-Slavery Group. Since joining with Jacobs, a Harvard graduate, he has been speaking out on Sudanese slavery, and he is the first escaped Sudanese slave to testify before a U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. "I'm speaking for people who can't speak for themselves," he said. "I'm a witness for what is happening in the Sudan today. As a Christian community, we must do something for the suffering of my people." More information: http://www.haitiwebs.com/haitianforums/showthread.php?t=401
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