Dimensions: Emigrant Sudanese are reduced to slavery! What’s next?
By: Dr. Musa’ab Brier
Few days ago, we saw a shocking video clip in the media showing hundreds of Sudanese youth being handcuffed from behind with their stomachs and heads on the tile floor at the Tunisian police station.
A commentator on the clip explains that harsh measures came after the expiry of a deadline set by Tunisian Prime Minister Kai’s Said, in which he directed the purging of Tunisia of all foreigners. Accordingly, foreign embassies facilitated the evacuation of their nationals, bar Sudan and Chad, so what happened.
The news once again exposed Sudanese fraud employment agencies gracefully exploiting Sudanese hunting jobs and better fortune abroad. Sudanese in Kuwait revealed the deplorable conditions they were made to face after being conned by Sudanese agencies involved in foreign employment.
According to the Al-Mataris website, the Kuwaiti newspaper “Al-Qabas” conducted a video investigation on the conditions of Sudanese expatriates who arrived on official work visas.
According to their testimonies, the Sudanese workers said they were shocked to find out that companies that were supposed to have contracted them had no existence, while others refused to pay their due wages. Some others revealed they were forced to work 16 hours non-stop under threats of imprisonment if they refused.
In Khartoum, the authorities had launched a security crackdown on agencies operating informally in the field of employing Sudanese workers abroad through fake work contracts.
These agencies are based in the Suq al-Arabi market in the heart of Khartoum. Their offices are currently closed with red wax and their employees were arrested.
Second dimension:
May God bless you, dear Sudanese people, the world has narrowed us with what it welcomed, and our youth are clear between the hammer of ice and the anvil of human trafficking, we have nobody from our useless parties to console us even with statements of condemnation or denunciation. So what is their use for us now?!
We are nothing for them but step stones to power. History would condemn them and question their humanity and patriotism. They are trading the homeland for lining their own pockets at the expense of the moans and groans of widows and the bereaved ones, the pains of the sick who are crying for medication, and the empty stomachs of orphans and children begging for sustenance during this miserable time.
Another dimension :
Do you, politicians, think that courting foreigners and embassies for help would make them open their homelands for you?! Haven’t you read history?! Whoever has no pride in their respective homeland?!
O, my people! We furthermore saw demonstrators demanding the deportation of Sudanese refugees from Israel. What gendarmerie have we reached in this deadlocked conflict?! Isn’t it enough for us to kill one other?!