Mende Nazer Was A Slave in modern day London now on stage and being made into a film

Slave: My True Story [Hardcover]

Uploaded by snowdrop871 on Mar 30, 2007

talking to mende about her experience of arriving in uk as a SLAVE . she has co written a book 'SLAVE' with Damien Lewis.

Mende Nazer was abducted as a child from her village in Sudan, sold into slavery, and kept hostage in Khartoum and London. She has parlayed her dramatic story into a memoir, and has asked for political asylum in Britain.

Alwin Schröder reported in Hamburg’s Der Spiegel that when Nazer was 12 or 13 (she doesn’t know her date of birth), armed Arab militia stormed her village in the Nuba Mountains on a front line of Sudan’s 19-year civil war between the Muslim-dominated government of the north and the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A). They raped the women and children (including Nazer), and maimed and massacred many inhabitants. Then they kidnaped the children and sold them into slavery—for US$150 each.

The United Nations estimates that up to 15,000 Sudanese, primarily in southern Sudan, have been abducted and sold into slavery by militiamen loyal to Sudan’s Islamist government. According to Human Rights Watch, this slave trade is sanctioned by Sudan’s regime as part of its counterinsurgency war against the SPLM/A.
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