SUDAN'S -STUDENTS- SURELY * : MASTER GLOBAL ESSAY

 

AWER - SOUTH SUDAN : ! First and Foremost ! - The World Students Society is the exclusive and eternal ownership of every student in Sudan just as it is the exclusive and eternal ownership of every student in the world.

On Sam Daily Times : '' The Voice Of The Voiceless,'' Sudanese Students may find themselves struggling with oblivion with a readership of only [32].

!WOW! concludes that the world's worst humanitarian crises today is probably the web of famine, civil war, mass rape and other atrocities in Sudan, a nightmare that the United States has formally described as genocide.

Many tens of thousands have been killed, 11 million Sudanese have been displaced, the most lethal famine in decades may be underway, and UNICEF warns that students/children as young as 1 year old are being raped.

Does the world care about suffering in a distant land? I don't know, but I think when we hear individual stories it may be more difficult for us to turn away.

With refugees pouring over the border into South Sudan, I visited two spots along the South Sudan border to ask refugees about conditions in places foreign reporters cannot easily reach.

Musa Ali, 32, was an interior designer in Khartoum who lived a good life until the civil war began two years ago between the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces.

An army bomb a year ago destroyed his house and forced the amputation of both his legs, confining him to a wheelchair. The food shortages grew so severe that neighbours began dying of hunger.

Musa's family members in other parts of the country were able to send him money to buy food. '' We would have died of hunger '' if relatives elsewhere had not sent money, he told me.

Yasin Yakob and Sabah Mohammad, both teachers, also fled recently from the Khartoum area.

They took back roads, so they largely avoided checkpoints. But they said that other vehicles also took those back roads - often trucks carrying dozens of refugees, - and when the trucks broke down, people in them often starved to death because there was no food to be had.

'' People's bodies were next to the trucks,'' Yassin said. ''If your truck broke, you died. There was just no food.''

The world's silence on Sudan's genocide verges on complicity. Ignoring the country and the cancellation of the U.S. aid is horrifying.

The World Students Society thanks Nicholas Kristof.