Sudan

Africa's largest nation is also the home of some of the world's worst human rights abuses.  This long-divided nation is dominated by Arab Muslims in the north who have imposed their government on the black Christians and Animists of the south.  The radical northern regime has used starvation, rape, torture, and slavery as tools of war.  Churches, hospitals, and schools are bombed regularly.  Children are taken away from their parents and forced to convert to Islam.  Of all this, the world has hardly even taken notice.  The situation is worse today than it was even a year ago.

Congressman Pitts and several of his colleagues are working hard to bring the plight of the southern Sudanese to the world's attention.  Only by shining a spotlight on the human rights abuses going on there can we ever hope to bring them to an end.

Map of Sudan
Sudan Backgrounder

Rep. Pitts condemns use of rape as a weapon of terror in Sudan (9/15/04)
Rep. Pitts: Call a spade, a spade – Sudan atrocities are genocide (7/2/04)
"Rep. Pitts votes for Sudan Peace Act" (6/13/01)
Human Rights on the World State, by Rep. Joe Pitts (4/11/01)
"Rep. Pitts urges swift action on Sudan Peace Act" (3/17/01)
"Rep. Pitts decries Sudanese Atrocities" (1/30/01)
Speech on Sudanese atrocities (10/25/00)
Slavery in the Sudan, by Rep. Joe Pitts (5/26/00)

Links
The American Anti-Slavery Group
Mission S.U.D.A.N.
The Persecution Project Foundation
Religious Prisoners Congressional Task Force
Congressman Tom Tancredo (R, CO-6)
U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom