New video of Sudanese hostages kidnapped by Libyan gunmen

Ahmed Fadl-Khartoum

The number of Sudanese hostages abducted by Libyan militants last month rose to eight, and a video clip was shown by Libyan militants in the past few hours and they were severely beaten.

Sudanese have recently been filming seven young people, chained, apparently in a tribal-led deal in southern Libya to release Libby, who was arrested by the Sudanese authorities for the murder of two currency traders.

But the kidnappers have increased the suffering of the hostages from the central island state of the island of kidnapping an eighth hostage from the border, Yusuf al-Samani was on his way back to Sudan.

Sudanese MP Ali Mohamed Ahmed al-Hassan told al-Jazeera Net that he would meet with Foreign Minister Dardari Mohammad Ahmed and parliament speaker Ibrahim Ahmed Omar on Wednesday in parliament to discuss the hostage issue, especially after the kidnapping of another person from the same chamber he represents in parliament.

The MP stressed that he is under intense pressure from the hostages' relatives, adding, "But the state has institutions and is able to deal with it."

Eighth hijacker
Mohammed al-Amin, from Um Hajjar village, where two of the hostages are al-Jazeera Net, reported that the eighth hijacker from the village of al-Shuwairf in the state of al-Jazira, south of Khartoum, is linked to a uterus with one of the seven hostages.

Al Jazeera Net learned that the eighth hostage was ill and suffering from pain in one of his kidneys, and appeared in the video as he crawled on the ground while he was being flogged.

One of the citizens of the region called for quick intervention by the government, pointing out that the last video raised the grief among the abductors' relatives, saying, "There is crying and wailing as if they have died." The loudspeakers in the mosques of the villages around us do not stop praying for their families to be disbanded.

He said they were now preparing to mobilize villagers and go to Khartoum and sit-ins in order to pressure government officials to find a quick solution to the crisis.

The latest video showed the eight hostages being whipped by their captors, forced to run in the sand dunes with shots fired, and one of the hostages complained of being beaten, insulted and cold in the desert.

One of the kidnappers, Mohammed Abdul Baki Marji, appealed to the Sudanese government for the speed of the intervention and allocated his call to an officer of the security and intelligence service who was said to be responsible for the Libyan file.

Interior Minister Ahmed Bilal confirmed the incident and promised in a press statement last week to rescue the hostages. The head of the Foreign Relations and International Cooperation Committee, Mohammad Mukhtar, also promised that the issue would be a priority for the council.