They hate you because of me - BosNewsLife.com is reporting on a massacre of Christians that took place during the month of May in Southern Sudan.
In related Sudanese news, Guardian Unlimited is reporting that Arab women stood by and happily sang songs while militia raped black women in Western Sudan. The article doesn't claim that the women were Christian, but something that the Arab women reportedly said leads me to believe they might be Christians.
Christian or not, the continued brutalities against non-Muslims and black people in Sudan are some of the most horrible atrocities taking place in the world today.
Jeevan Vasagar in Nairobi and Ewen MacAskill report for Guardian Unlimited:
During an attack on the village of Disa in June last year, Arab women accompanied the attackers and sang songs praising the government and scorning the black villagers.
According to an African chief quoted in the [Amnesty International] report, the singers said: "The blood of the blacks runs like water, we take their goods and we chase them from our area and our cattle will be in their land. The power of [Sudanese president Omer Hassan] al-Bashir belongs to the Arabs and we will kill you until the end, you blacks, we have killed your God."
The chief said that the Arab women also racially insulted women from the village: "You are gorillas, you are black, and you are badly dressed."
The Janjaweed have abducted women for use as sex slaves, in some cases breaking their limbs to prevent them escaping, as well as carrying out rapes in their home villages, the report said.
We need to actively pray for the people in Sudan.
There are politicians calling for a joint resolution in Congress that would call the crisis in Sudan genocide.
Susan Jones reports for CNSNews.com that some politicians and others have been protesting in front of the Sudan Embassy in Washington:
Rep. Joe Hoeffel (D-Pa.), his wife Francesca Hoeffel, and comedian-turned-activist Dick Gregory were all arrested at the Sudan Embassy in Washington on Tuesday, Christian Solidarity International proudly announced in a press release.
In a campaign vaguely reminiscent of the anti-apartheid demonstrations outside the South African embassy in the 1980s, liberal activists are deliberately getting themselves arrested to draw attention to the crisis in western Sudan.
I know America can't be the policeman for the world but there are certainly political pressures that can be brought to bear against the Sudanese government and it's neighbors.
