“When your people come here we will kill you”

Abyei, Sudan—On October 19, Bulbul Deng was detained at a government checkpoint as he traveled by bus back from a medical appointment in Khartoum to his home in Abyei, a region situated in the heart of Sudan. At the checkpoint, Deng says the men onboard were forced to lie face-down on the ground, while the Sudanese government soldiers, carrying wooden sticks and AK-47s, asked who among them had fought against the government in violence that destroyed part of Abyei in 2008. Though he told them he did not fight against the government, Deng and a couple more men of military age were detained while the women, children, and other men were eventually let through. Read rest of the article as it appeared . . .