Manute Bol in the news again

[rockyroad]

Originally posted by stripes

I don't pretend to know al of the politics involved, but I had read that the existing Sudanese government is oppresive, especially against Manute Bol's people. I have read further of the atrocities committed by the government and military against certain tribes. His funding of the rebel movement is a move to protect friends and family members and to act out against a government that he feels is in the wrong. Sounds to me like a group of rag-tag rebels in the 1770s. It all depends on your perspective.

When was the last time you read about any of the 1770's ragtag group attacking a village and slaughtering hundreds of men, women, and children, simply because that village supported the existing government?? Don't be fooled - the gov. there is rotten, but so is the SPLA...not the time or place to get into this, but I lost a college friend (who was serving there as a missionary) to these "freedom" fighters...he was trying to deliver food to starving people...nothing more to say...