Religious Freedom in Sudan
The Sudan Foundation

    On March 9, 1999, the Sudan Foundation charged that Baroness Caroline Cox is behind the real "slavers" in the region. In its occasional paper entitled ``Eight Questions for Christian Solidarity International and Baroness Cox'' The Sudan Foundation has charged that Christian Solidarity International, while professing to be a human rights organization, has aligned itself with the very Sudanese who were responsible for the real persecution of Christians and spreading of slavery. The Sudan Foundation report identified John Garang, the head of the SPLA, and former Sudanese Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi as the actual violators of human rights. To buttress the case, the Sudan Foundation cited the 1990 U.S. State Department human rights report, which cited al-Madhi's government for violations, and identified Garang's SPLA as a terrorist organization.

    Baroness Cox's new organization, Christian Solidarity Worldwide, has felt compelled to respond to the Sudan Foundation's ``campaign to discredit its work,'' which CSW says is being carried out by both the Foundation and the Sudan Embassy. Even Baroness Cox is forced to say of her ally, Umma party leader Sadiq al-Mahdi that: ``He admits and regrets that human rights violations took place while he was in power.... Similarly, John Garang admits and regrets that human rights violations have occurred in areas controlled by the SPLA.'' Ironically, among those abuses that John Garang was forced to admit to was the arrest and abuse of Christian missionaries in SPLA territory.