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Christian Solidarity International (CSI) on Tuesday alleged that the pro-government Popular Defence Forces (PDF) enslaved 188 southern Sudanese women and children during raids on three villages in northern Bahr el Ghazal at the weekend. A PDF unit of some 1,300 men on horseback attacked Malith on 10 March, looting the village and enslaving an estimated 70 people after repelling the SPLA, CSI alleged in a statement. The unit then moved southwards and enslaved 50 people at Rup Deir before being repelled by the SPLA, it added.
A second PDF unit from the Atiat garrison moved down the Wau-Khartoum railway line and attacked Majok Kuom on the morning of Sunday 11 March, capturing about 68 women and children in the process, CSI claimed. It said four representatives of the NGO and independent journalists had seen for themselves the “charred remains” of Malith after the attack. The raids marked “the most recent of a series of grave violations of the current UN-brokered ceasefire in northern Bahr el -Ghazal,” the statement said.
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