So I haven't seen one nongovernmental organization operating in those areas of the Nuba Mountains or parts of Bahr el Ghazal, among the Dinkas, or in Southern Blue Nile. Well, they go only to those areas where the regime in Khartoum says that you can fly. That's why hundreds of thousands of our people died of starvation. And that's why we are saying that Operation Lifeline and the nongovernmental organizations should operate in all areas affected by famine and war. We are also asking that the international community should stop the Khartoum regime from burning villages and abducting our children as slaves.
Slavery still exists in Sudan.
These children are traumatized by the abductions that they had to undergo. So we are asking the international community to intervene on their behalf. We are saying that the south, the Nuba Mountains and all the marginalized areas have the right to self-determination. Second, they should separate religion from politics. We should not and we cannot, because Sudan is a multiracial, multicultural, multireligious country.