Monday - August 03, 2009

Non-Islamic Violence in Sudan

Who needs Islam to stir up that hornet’s nest? All the tribes in Sudan are constantly at war with all the other tribes in Sudan. And many of the same tribes are across the border in Ethiopia.

BREAKING NEWS: Gunmen kill 161 people in Jonglei’s Akobo
By Philip Thon Aleu

August 3, 2009 (BOR TOWN) – Some 161 people from Lou Nuer group are counted dead and 29 injured in Akobo County following gunmen attack on August 2, officials say here.

Speaking at an emotional press conference in Bor Town Monday, Commissioner Goi Jooyul Yol detailed that 100 women, 50 children and 11 SPLA soldiers are among the dead during the attack on Geni River at Mareng, 40 Kilometers south west Akobo Town.

“Of the 29 wounded, 3 are SPLA and the rest are civilians,” he added.

The attackers, who carried out their raid at dawn, are believed to be one of the groups of Murle tribesmen that had attacked Lony village on July 29 and reportedly killing a couple and abducting a child.

Official: 185 killed in Sudan tribal violence

CAIRO – A local south Sudanese official says gunmen have attacked a group of displaced people camping near a river close to the Ethiopian border, killing 185 of them. The official, reached by telephone, says more than half of the victims of Sunday’s attack were women and children. A flare-up of tribal clashes over cattle and territory in south Sudan has left some 1,000 people killed this year.

Goi Yol said Monday that workers have so far counted 185 bodies, mostly members of the Lou-Nuer tribe. The dead included 12 soldiers assigned to protect the group. Yol blamed the rival Murle tribe for the attack. The two tribes have for years been engaged in tit-for-tat attacks, but women and children have increasingly been targeted recently.

The numbers may vary from news report to news report, but this is the same incident they are all referring to. Tribalism. Villagers killing each other in bulk quantities, keeping alive a never ending vendetta. Why? The whole thing is over some cows, and a bit of grazing land. There is plenty of land there that can’t be used for cattle, because of that annoying little tsetse fly.

This latest flare-up is just one of many. But it does point out that the tribalists don’t need Big Mo to get to killin’ on their neighbors. This crew are all animists, and they manage to kill each other just fine, and have for thousands of years.

The Joshua Project has done a decent job of listing all the tribes in the Sudan and their cultural basics. There are more than 300 tribes in that country. At about 967,500 square miles in size, Sudan is the largest country in Africa. It is the size of Alaska plus Texas plus Virginia. 40 million people live there. This is the land that once was Nubia and Kush - people have been killing each other there since there were people, long before Pharaoh, before they were known as the Anu, right back to 4000BC when they were just the “A-Group Culture”. Some folks just never advance much.

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