A controversial Christian human rights group based in Switzerland said it had bought the freedom of 5,514 slaves in Sudan during a secret mission.
In a statement released Dec. 22; Christian Solidarity International said the redemption during the week of Dec. 12 brought the number of slaves freed through its program to 20,961. The program has existed since 1995, The Washington post reported.
“The slaves, mainly Christian and animist women and children from the Dinka tribe, were brought out of captivity in northern Sudan and returned to their homeland in the south by eight networks of Arab retrievers,” the Zurich- based group said.
The organizations said it paid Arab middleman about $50 per slave in its latest work. The organization said more than 100,000 people continue to be enslaved in northern Sudan or are “subjected to slave like practices in (the) Sudanese government’s concentration camps- often euphemistically called ‘peace camps’ for the displaced.”
The government of Sudan denies slavery exists as such but officials say they are trying to halt abductions for forced labor.
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