27
April 2011
Past Event
Eastern Sudan: Threats to the Beja People and Global Security

Eastern Sudan: Threats to the Beja People and Global Security

Past Event
Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
April 27, 2011
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27
April 2011
Past Event

1015 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

Speakers:
Paul Marshall

Hudson Senior Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom

Ibrahim Tahir Ahmed

Together with Omar Hummadgimi,leads the Beja Congress, Washington, DC chapter

Walid Phares

Co-Secretary General, Transatlantic Legislative Group on Counter Terrorism and Professor of Global Strategies, National Defense University

Jimmy Mulla

President of Voices for Sudan

Faith McDonnell

Director, Religious Liberty Program and the Church Alliance for a New Sudan, Institute on Religion and Democracy.

In January, South Sudan voted overwhelmingly for its independence. But millions of oppressed and marginalized people remain in Sudan, including in Eastern Sudan, home of the Beja people who comprise 15% of Sudan's overall population.

Eastern Sudan possesses gold, oil, and natural gas, and is the site of Sudan's main port city, Port Sudan, a strategic Red Sea harbor. Successive Sudanese governments have attempted to suppress Beja culture and identity, and barred humanitarian relief organizations from the area. As a result, the Beja suffer severe rates of poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition, illness, and high infancy and maternal mortality.

Now Khartoum is displacing the indigenous Beja and replacing them with settlers from the Rashaida tribes originally from Saudi Arabia, who were invited to eastern Sudan decades ago. The Rashaida settlers, particularly the Jihadi elements among them, are already notorious for smuggling Iranian weapons to Hamas. Their actions and alliances with terrorists like Hamas and other Jihadists cause a threat to regional and global security.

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