James Aguer Alic

James Aguer Alic (* around 1970 west of Uwail in South Sudan ) is head of the Dinka Committee ( Dinka Comitee ), which campaigns for the end of slavery in Sudan and the liberation of slaves. He is a member of the Dinka people , recipient of the World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child 2003 and the Anti-Slavery Award 2006.

biography

At the age of 20, James Aguer Alic witnessed an attack on his village as part of the civil war in southern Sudan , in which militiamen from northern Sudan took children into slavery and killed his mother, who refused to let them have her youngest daughter. After this event, he and his siblings fled via Waw to a refugee camp in Khartoum .

There he decided to work for the liberation of the enslaved who were in the hands of “Arab” slave owners in Northern Sudan. Disguised as an Arab, he traveled through Darfur and Kurdufan to obtain the release of slaves. He was supported by some local leaders and sultans, but threatened by others. By 2003 he had been arrested 33 times. Two of his colleagues were killed while trying to free slaves.

By the same year he had freed an estimated 2,200 children, he estimates the number of those who remain in slaves at 15,000 to 17,000. Most of them belong to the Dinka like him.

James Aguer Alic and his associates are members of the Committee on the Abolition of the Abduction of Women and Children (CEAWC), which was established by the Sudanese government in 1999 to avoid allegations of inaction against slavery.

Web links

• World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child 2003: James Aguer Alic
• Anti-Slavery International: Anti-Slavery Award: James Aguer ( Memento from February 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
• Speech by James Aguer Alic on the Anti-Slavery Award 2006 ( Memento from February 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to Christian Solidarity International , James Aguer Alic was 47 years old in 2006 - must therefore have been born around 1960 - experienced the attack on his village of Agok at the age of 27 and three years later, in 1989, began campaigning for the liberation of slaves; see. CSI archive . Retrieved on July 9, 2010.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.