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Evidence is mounting of a murderous campaign to clear civilians off rich oil lands in southern Sudan.
Out of the bush emerge a line of 328 ragged Dinka men, women and children. They walk in silence behind their master - a northern Sudanese slave trader. Slavery here is a tool of war. Raiders from the Islamic north come to raze the villages of the Christian south, from where the SPLA guerrillas mount their counter attacks. Into the equation have arrived Western NGOs.
We look at Sudan, one of the most notorious slave states. Here slavery is widely used as a weapon of war by the Muslim north against the Christian and animist south. One British woman buys slaves to win their freedom; but is this only a short-term solution?
The UN aid programme in Sudan may have saved two million lives in the South from starvation. But in the remote Nuba mountains, the hungry claim that UN aid is being used as a weapon of war.
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