Many of our people have been killed as they exited in the morning or at night going to the toilet. There are hundreds of such mutilated land mine victims in southern Sudan today. Cholera, typhoid and other diseases resulting from malnutrition and squalid sanitary conditions are also endemic in the war-torn regions. Health care is virtually non-existent in the south and in the Nuba Mountains. There is no medicine.
People just die like animals in the forest.
There is no family or community which has not lost members in the jihad. My own only sister Mary and her daughter Pierina died from starvation. My nephew Philip died at the hands of the government forces together with hundreds of other southern civil servants. We were never given Philip's remains to see and bury with dignity according to our tradition. Against all odds we are struggling for life and dignity, supporting the survivors morally, sheltering and feeding the starving, particularly children, many of whom are orphans.