I
got this as an email from a relative. Another relative added:
“Having been fairly close to the South Sudan sufferings for about
five years up until 2005, I know the truth of Deng’s report at the
Durban Conference.” The message is:
From: 2012/3/22
Sudan - a remarkable address to the recent "Durban
Conference" in New York
A REMARKABLE SPEECH.
I HOPE IT WILL GO AROUND THE WORLD.
These are the words of Simon Deng, once a Sudanese slave. He is
addressing the Durban Conference in NY.
I want to thank the organizers of this conference, The Perils
of Global Intolerance. It is a great honor for me and it is a
privilege really to be among today's distinguished speakers.
I came here as a friend of the State of Israel and the Jewish
people. I came to protest this Durban conference which is based on a
set of lies. It is organized by nations who are themselves are guilty
of the worst kind of oppression.
It will not help the victims of racism. It will only isolate
and target the Jewish state. It is a tool of the enemies of Israel.
The UN has itself become a tool against Israel. For over 50
years, 82 percent of the UN General Assembly emergency meetings have
been about condemning one state - Israel. Hitler couldn't have been
made happier!
The Durban Conference is an outrage. All decent people will
know that.
But friends, I come here today with a radical idea. I come to
tell you that there are peoples who suffer from the UN's
anti-Israelism even more than the Israelis. I belong to one of those
people.
Please hear me out.
By exaggerating Palestinian suffering, and by blaming the Jews
for it, the UN has muffled the cries of those who suffer on a far
larger scale.
For over fifty years the indigenous black population of Sudan
-- Christians and Muslims alike --- have been the victims of the
brutal, racist Arab Muslim regimes in Khartoum.
In South Sudan, my homeland, about 4 million innocent men,
women and children were slaughtered from 1955 to 2005. Seven million
were ethnically cleansed and they became the largest refugee group
since World War II.
The UN is concerned about the so-called Palestinian refugees.
They dedicated a separate agency for them, and they are treated with
a special privilege.
Meanwhile, my people, ethnically cleansed, murdered and
enslaved, are relatively ignored. The UN refuses to tell the world
the truth about the real causes of Sudan's conflicts. Who knows
really what is happening in Darfur? It is not a "tribal
conflict."
It is a conflict rooted in Arab colonialism well known in north
Africa. In Darfur, a region in the Western Sudan, everybody is
Muslim. Everybody is Muslim because the Arabs invaded the North of
Africa and converted the indigenous people to Islam. In the eyes of
the Islamists in Khartoum, the Darfuris are not Muslim enough. And
the Darfuris do not want to be Arabized.
They love their own African languages and dress and customs.
The Arab response is genocide! But nobody at the UN tells the truth
about Darfur.
In the Nuba Mountains, another region of Sudan, genocide is
taking place as I speak. The Islamist regime in Khartoum is targeting
the black Africans - Muslims and Christians. Nobody at the UN has
told the truth about the Nuba Mountains.
Do you hear the UN condemn Arab racism against blacks?
What you find on the pages of the New York Times, or in the
record of the UN condemnations is 'Israeli crimes' and Palestinian
suffering.
My people have been driven off the front pages because of the
exaggerations about Palestinian suffering.
What Israel does is portrayed as a Western sin. But the truth
is that the real sin happens when the West abandons us: the victims
of Arab/Islamic apartheid.
Chattel slavery was practiced for centuries in Sudan. It was
revived as a tool of war in the early 90s.
Khartoum declared jihad against my people and this legitimized
taking slaves as war booty.
Arab militias were sent to destroy Southern villages and were
encouraged to take African women and children as slaves.
We believe that up to 200,000 were kidnapped, brought to the
North and sold into slavery.
I am a living proof of this crime against humanity!
I don't like talking about my experience as a slave, but I do
it because it is important for the world to know that slavery exists
even today.
I was only nine years old when an Arab neighbor named Abdullahi
tricked me into following him to a boat. The boat wound up in
Northern Sudan where he gave me as a gift to his family. For three
and a half years I was their slave going through something that no
child should ever go through: brutal beatings and humiliations;
working around the clock; sleeping on the ground with animals; eating
the family'™s left-overs. During those three years I was unable to
say the word 'no.'
All I could say was “yes,” “yes,” “yes.”
The United Nations knew about the enslavement of South Sudanese
by the Arabs. Their own staff reported it. It took UNICEF – under
pressure from the Jewish –led American Anti-Slavery Group --
sixteen years to acknowledge what was happening. I want to publicly
thank my friend Dr. Charles Jacobs for leading the anti-slavery
fight.
But the Sudanese government and the Arab League pressured
UNICEF, and UNICEF backtracked, and started to criticize those who
worked to liberate Sudanese slaves. In 1998, Dr. Gaspar Biro, the
courageous UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Sudan who
reported on slavery, resigned in protest of the UN's actions.
My friends, today, tens of thousands of black South Sudanese
still serve their masters in the North and the UN is silent about
that. It would offend the OIC and the Arab League.
As a former slave and a victim of the worst sort of racism,
allow me to explain why I think calling Israel a racist state is
absolutely absurd and immoral.
I have been to Israel five times visiting the Sudanese
refugees. Let me tell you how they ended up there. These are Sudanese
who fled Arab racism, hoping to find shelter in Egypt. They were
wrong. When Egyptian security forces slaughtered twenty six black
refugees in Cairo who were protesting Egyptian racism, the Sudanese
realized that the Arab racism is the same in Khartoum or Cairo. They
needed shelter and they found it in Israel. Dodging the bullets of
the Egyptian border patrols and walking for very long distances, the
refugees' only hope was to reach Israel's side of the fence, where
they knew they would be safe.
Black Muslims from Darfur chose Israel above all the other
Arab-Muslim states of the area. Do you know what this means!!!?? And
the Arabs say Israel is racist!!!?
In Israel, black Sudanese, Christian and Muslim were welcomed
and treated like human beings. Just go and ask them, like I have
done. They told me that compared to the situation in Egypt, Israel is
"heaven."
Is Israel a racist state? To my people, the people who know
racism – the answer is absolutely not. Israel is a state of people
who are the colors of the rainbow. Jews themselves come in all
colors, even black. I met with Ethiopian Jews in Israel. Beautiful
black Jews.
So, yes … I came here today to tell you that the people who
suffer most from the UN anti-Israel policy are not the Israelis but
all those people who the UN ignores in order to tell its big lie
against Israel: we, the victims of Arab/Muslim abuse: women, ethnic
minorities, religious minorities, homosexuals, in the Arab/Muslim
world. These are the biggest victims of UN Israel hatred.
Look at the situation of the Copts in Egypt, the Christians in
Iraq, and Nigeria, and Iran, the Hindus and Bahais who suffer from
Islamic oppression. The Sikhs. We -- a rainbow coalition of victims
and targets of Jihadis -- all suffer. We are ignored, we are
abandoned. So that the big lie against the Jews can go forward.
In 2005, I visited one of the refugee camps in South Sudan. I
met a twelve year old girl who told me about her dream.
In a dream she wanted to go to school to become a doctor. And
then, she wanted to visit Israel. I was shocked.
How could this refugee girl who spent most of her life in the
North know about Israel? When I asked why she wanted to visit Israel,
she said: "This is our people." I was never able to
find an answer to my question.
On January 9 of 2011 South Sudan became an independent state.
For South Sudanese, that means continuation of oppression,
brutalization, demonization, Islamization, Arabization and
enslavement.
In a similar manner, the Arabs continue denying Jews their
right for sovereignty in their homeland and the Durban III conference
continues denying Israel'™s legitimacy.
As a friend of Israel, I bring you the news that my President,
the President of the Republic of South Sudan, Salva Kiir -- publicly
stated that the South Sudan Embassy in Israel will be built--- not in
Tel Aviv, but in Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the Jewish people.
I also want to assure you that my own new nation, and all of
its peoples, will oppose racist forums like the Durban III. We will
oppose it by simply continuing to tell the truth! Our truth!
My Jewish friends taught me something that I now want to say
with you.
AM YISROEL CHAI !
The people of Israel lives!
Thank you
Please see that this important message is revealed to the
entire world!
Shmuel Blumer
Jerusalem Israel
This is a wake- up cry for truth to be made known to the world
which has been deceived for far too long because they think it will
not happen to them -----until it is too late.
