From Center For Security Policy
by HEATHER ROBINSON
As a child, American human rights activist Simon Deng survived brutal enslavement by Islamists and witnessed their destruction of his village in Sudan.
Today, at 50, Deng is an American citizen and one of the leading advocates for the rights of his people, …
Today the Center for Security Policy web site features the first segment of my interview with American human rights activist Simon Deng.
While many people are familiar with the fact that Sudan’s Islamist government provided sanctuary, space, and resources to Osama bin Laden in the 1980’s, enabling him to set up terrorist training camps before …
Evidently masterminding genocide — or at least allegedly doing so — is not sufficiently evil for Sudanese President Omar al Bashir. Last week he decided to kick out of Sudan 13 NGOs, including Doctors without Borders, Save the Children, and Oxfam.
Today Bashir, who is being prosecuted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes, …
If you’re watching this year’s 2008 Olympic Games (NBC will broadcast from Beijing starting Friday August 8 at 7:30), be sure to look out for former Sudanese refugee and “lost boy” Lopez Lamong. A Southern Sudanese Christian who as a boy ran for his life from genocidal war that pitted the Arab Islamist government …
Yesterday Israel’s Ma’ariv carried my opinion piece on the Christian Sudanese refugees in Israel. It was translated into Hebrew, but I have pasted the English version below.
Also, today The New York Sun carries the tragic news from Khartoum of the murder of a young …
Slavery still exists in Sudan. The enslaved—of whom there are at least several thousand—are Christians, according to Simon Deng, who was himself enslaved as a boy by an Arab Muslim family.
Last night Mr. Deng spoke at a dinner hosted by The Hudson Institute, a Manhattan think tank, about conditions in Sudan, both for Muslims in …
“Who is the real enemy of Mohammed,” asks Simon Deng, an escaped slave from Sudan and leading human rights activist, “a child who names a teddy bear, or the one who is killing little Muhammed in Darfur?” Mr. Deng, whom I have interviewed for The New York Daily News and who is one of …
From The New York Daily News
BY HEATHER ROBINSON
August 31, 2006
It was “desperation” to raise awareness about the plight of black Africans in his native land of Sudan, Simon Deng says, that prompted the Harlem resident to walk the 300 miles from the United Nations to …
From The New York Daily News
By HEATHER ROBINSON
March 21, 2006
“As a child, I was abducted and taken into slavery, at a time most people assumed slavery was a thing of the past,” says Simon Deng, 45, to a reporter over coffee in an upper East Side cafe on a recent …
Israel’s Sudanese Friends
From Ma’ariv
by HEATHER ROBINSON
Reprinted from Ma’ariv January 1, 2008
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the Knesset recently that while he would like to grant asylum to 489 Muslim refugees from Sudan’s Darfur region to protect them from genocide, he is inclined to send back some 2,300 refugees from southern Sudan, who are Christians. …