Reports from Sudan indicate that the government of Sudan is preparing to launch a "final solution" that is intended to permanently eliminate the black, mostly Christian inhabitants in southern Sudan. An imminent threat looms over the south eastern region of the Nuba Mountains where eight new divisions of the Sudanese army have already moved into place. The government forces are equipped with tanks and new weaponry purchased from China with money earned from the militant-Muslim regime's newly operational oil pipeline. It is estimated that once the assault on the Nubian people begins, it could take as little as a few days until Khartoum's objective of genocide is complete.

An eerie silence is evidence enough to one pastor in southern Sudan that no help can be expected from the international community. He echoes a frequently asked question: "Why does the militant-Muslim regime in Khartoum get help from their Muslim neighbors and yet our cries for help from fellow Christians around the world seems to fall on deaf ears?"

Many of Sudan's non-Muslims are wondering why America responded to cries for help from the Muslims of Kosovo who claimed that they were victims of a genocide and yet is silent about a greater genocide taking place in Sudan? One medical worker attending the wounds of an injured child at the hospital in Yei asks, "How can America justify helping the oil-rich Muslims of Kuwait by swiftly providing U.S. military assistance when the armies of Iraq marched against them, and yet remain silent about what is happening in southern Sudan?" The tears of a countless number of suffering civilians in southern Sudan fall on the barren earth. The only thing awaiting them is their earthen grave.

Once the Arab-government in Khartoum has gained total control of the region belonging to the Nubian people, the government will be able to offer increased security for the oil fields located to the south. The oil pipeline was built by Talisman Energy of Canada with heavy investments from China. A major effort has been launched by human rights organization to persuade Canadians and Americans to divest stock holdings in Talisman Energy.

The French humanitarian organization, Medecins Sans Frontieres, has documented many of the bombings and conducted many interviews with survivors from bombing raids. One young girl who escaped this bombing of the school of Narus testifies: "I was unwell for a few days suffering from acute diarrhea. For this reason I was often in the toilets located at the end of the compound just behind the school. I was in the toilet when I heard the sound of a plane. I immediately realized that the plane was the Antonov. I got up, ran quickly out of the toilet and started running away from that place. I dove on the ground just in time to hear the explosion of the bomb and the fragments flying all over. After a few seconds I looked back at the place where the toilet had been located, but it was no longer there. What was the toilet is not a big crater." In 1999, the Government of Sudan dropped more bombs during its aerial bombardments over the Equatoria province in southern Sudan than in any previous year since the civil war began 17 years ago.

The areas hardest hit were Kajo Keji, Yei, Maridi and Kaopeta. It has been documented that more than sixty bombing raids took place in the Equatoria province alone between January 1999 and January 2000. A total of about 400 bombs had been dropped on the civilian population, causing at least 22 deaths and wounding 51. An equal or greater number of deaths and injuries have occurred in the Nuba region just since February 8, 2000. A fact-finding team from International Christian Concern that visited the devastated town of Yei discovered that a majority of the population had fled because of the ever-constant threat of bombs dropped from Russian-made Antonov airplanes. ICC's president Steven Snyder described the conditions: "Nearly every solid-constructed building has either been damaged or destroyed. Everywhere I saw sharp-edged pieces of shrapnel that the Khartoum regime commonly uses in bombs that are intended to kill and maim children."

Conclusive evidence from an inquiry carried out by a group of NGO's working in southern Sudan found that the Khartoum regime had used chemical bombs in the towns of Lainya and Loka. The inquiry discovered that many civilians had suffered from symptoms such as poisoning, vomiting blood, miscarriages, headaches and skin burns. Two field staff who visited the area three days after the bombing complained of having some of the same symptoms. Mr. Snyder is asking all Americans to ask this question: "Why has there been no serious attempt on the part of the international community to stop the slaughter and displacement of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in southern Sudan?" He adds, "This should be very troubling to any humane person." The world now awaits in silence as the brutal regime in Khartoum prepares to commit their "final solution" and to Islamicize all Sudan." ICC urges Christians to call the White House and their elected representatives in Washington to urge the U.S. to take every action necessary to end the looming genocide.

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