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WASHINGTON, June 8 (AFP)-U.S. students of the "STOP" association went to Congress on Thursday to denounce slavery in south Sudan. "The major goal of the STOP campaign is public awareness, the students will not stop until the government takes action and every slave is freed," professor Barbara Vogel said at a news conference. Thirty students from two classes in Aurora, Colorado launched a national campaign in 1998 to end slavery in the Christian south of war-ravaged Sudan and inform the U.S. public of the practice. Members of Congress applauded the students' efforts. "The administration has repeatedly ignored this catastrophe in Africa, so today, with the help of these students, we bring the tragedy to Washington and to America," said Tom Tancredo, a Republican Representative from Colorado. Students of STOP (Slavery That Oppresses People) have already raised $50,000 and have helped to free thousands of slaves, according to the association. Humanitarian organizations regularly denounce the kidnapping of women and children in southern Sudan who are then sold as slaves in the north of the country. A civil war has divided the country since 1983 between Animist and Christian in the south and the predominately Muslim population in the north. |
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