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Contact: Jeff Walton, Institute on Religion and Democracy, 202-682-4131, 202-413-5639 cell, jwalton@TheIRD.org
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 2012 /Standard Newswire/ -- The IRD Church Alliance for a New Sudan is co-sponsoring a rally protesting attacks on Sudan's marginalized African people groups by the Islamist regime in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. The rally, organized by the Nuba Community and other Sudanese Americans, will signify the disappointment of victimized Sudanese people and their American friends in the Sudan policy of the U.S. Administration, and to call attention to atrocities and genocide perpetrated by the Sudanese government.
Event Details:
What: Rally at the White House for Sudanese People Under Attack
Who: Nuba Community, Help Nuba, Marginalized People Groups, IRD's Church Alliance for a New Sudan
Where: Lafayette Park, in front of the White House
When: Friday, December 14, 1-4p.m.
Attacks by Khartoum against the people of the Nuba Mountains began in 2011. Aerial bombardment, burning of villages, extrajudicial killings, and other crimes against humanity have continued and increased. Recently, Khartoum burned 26 villages, purposely destroying crops and grasslands in order to starve the Nuba people, hundreds of thousands of which are hiding in caves. In Blue Nile State, 25,000 people recently attempted to flee to South Sudan. Ambushed by the army, many were killed or taken captive. The genocide also continues in Darfur, where university students were recently beaten and killed, and Khartoum has displaced 2.5 million people.
The eastern Sudan's indigenous Beja people face increasing Islamization and Arabization. The Beja suffer malnutrition, disease, and early mortality, as well as changing demographics where the UN will permanently settle 800,000 refugees from Eritrea and Somalia on their land. Many of these are affiliated with the Eritrean Islamic Jihad Movement and the Somali Al-Shabab group.
IRD Religious Liberty Director Faith J.H. McDonnell commented:
"Sudan's marginalized people from across the country are being ignored by the U.S. Administration.
"We are sending a message to President Obama that the innocent people of Sudan deserve to be protected from a genocidal, tyrannical leader. Why is the Islamist regime in Khartoum allowed to continue starving and killing people with impunity in the Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile State, Darfur, and Abyei? Why are they allowed to orchestrate the ethnic cleansing of Sudan's black, African indigenous people like the Beja and the Nubians?
"IRD is urging those concerned about the human rights and religious freedom of the Sudanese people, or about issues of global security and international terrorism, to join the rally."
