The Holocaust of 1999

By: Nicole Christensen

Do you think it would be possible for the population of California to be wiped out by an extremist group? In the 1930's? If you were to ask a Jewish person this question, they would most likely answer the question like this, "No!". The reality behind this question is that a single population was almost entirely massacred. the Jewish population living in Europe in the 1930's and beyond experienced the persecution and death of an estimated 15 million Jews.

Some people think that this could never happen in such an advanced society as the 80's 90's and soon to be millennium. The truth in regards to this type of thinking is that persecution and death is occurring today. The Sudanese people of Africa are experiencing the same forms of persecution and torture that the Jews of the Holocaust once suffered

Jewish businesses were boycotted and vandalized Jews were driven from their jobs in government and universities. On the Night of Broken Glass (Nov. 9-10, 1938) every Jewish synagogue was burned down. Jewish families were without houses of worship for their God.

Beginning in 1942, many Jews were bound into slave labor, or driven into concentration camps. Within the concentration camps, Jews were tortured and given rations until they died. Jews were gassed in gas chambers, beaten to death, and hung on poles until they suffocated.

Families were torn apart. Women were beaten, raped, and used as slaves. Young girls were used as servants and concubines, for soldiers’ pleasures. Young boys were forced into concentration camps and tortured. Families were not allowed to be united, but separated and killed off

The Sudanese houses are being destroyed. Churches are being burned down. The Sudanese Christians are banned from working unless they renounce their faith. The Sudanese Christians are unable to harvest food because war has plagued the land. They are unable to buy food, so they are malnutritoned and starved.

Since 1985, approximately two million have perished due to genocide Families are terrorized---fathers killed, mothers raped, children sold into slavery, young adults forced into camps. Families are ripped apart. Men are wiped, burned, hung, drowned, buried alive. and mutilated. Women are wiped and beaten. Some women have even had their breasts cut off. When children are sold into slavery, they are forced into Muslim schooling. They are forced to sit and memorize the Koran. If they fail to do so, thev are beaten and singled out. Most of the children who refuse are starved to death. Young adults who do not renounce their faith and follow Muslim ways are forced to walk in front of advancing Islamic troops to test the ground for mines.

Much of the persecution from the Holocaust is being replayed in Sudan to this verv day. Many families are experiencing the same types of separation and torture