Sudan Booklet
South Sudan: The People the Gods Forgot (An Eyewitness Odyssey) SouthSouthSouth SudanSudanSudan The People the Gods Forgot (An Eyewitness Odyssey in Western Upper Nile) “Our Future is Dying in Front of Our Eyes — as We Look at the Children Dying of Hunger, Diseases and War . .” A Nuer Elder, Mr. Kuol Beliew, in the Majok Amal displaced persons’ cattle camp of Toy Payam, Mayom County (July 27, 2002, Western Upper Nile Province) Report for Norwegian People’s Aid (Sudan Programme) by John Gachie 1 South Sudan: The People the Gods Forgot (An Eyewitness Odyssey) Food arrives in Leel, Western Upper Nile “The history and nature of the Sudan Conflict demonstrates that a military solution cannot bring lasting peace and stability to the country” The IGAD Declaration of Principles A Nuer woman in Tam, Western Upper Nile Preparing lunch in Wicok 2 South Sudan: The People the Gods Forgot (An Eyewitness Odyssey) Introduction struggle is against the murderous military and its militia offshoots of For the people of Western Upper Nile State, or Unity State to one of the most relentlessly brutal the Government of Sudan, life is nasty, brutish and short. It is a The scale of the regimes on the face of the earth, the life of fear, despair and terror. Survival is at the very edge of violence in Khartoum Government. human endurance with no way out of a vicious cycle of hunger, Western Upper horror and death. At the worst of times, their fate hangs Nile is shocking, by a thread as anxiety stalks, fear and widespread and The terrible staple of their existence is compounded by a grand horror reign and death lurks at ev- conspiracy of natural and man-made elements, all apparently shows little ery corner.
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