Ahmed Fadl-Khartoum
Access to the village of Umm Hajjar in the state of Al-Jazira (south of Khartoum), where two of the seven Sudanese people appear in a video clip recently by armed men who Sudanese sources said were from southern Libya. It was not easy. Some 57 kilometers of dirt road had to be traversed .
Here in the midst of mud-brick houses, two houses are transformed into orphanages. All the men and women of the village congregate in them, comforting the families with the fate of their children, who are at the mercy of their executioners.
The house of one of the hostages, Mohamed Abdel Baki Marji (20 years old), is full of visitors and visitors. His father, who sits among the men of the village and meditates with his sons, begins to tell Al-Jazeera Net that his son Muhammad is supporting his family of two and five children.
"Muhammad suffered hardships and traveled by land to Libya to support his brothers. He has struggled and divided the desert for ten months for us."
The hostage's son, Mohammed al-Amin, appeared to be feeling uneasy about the way he was kidnapped, explaining that his nephew was bedridden for malaria when the hijackers raided him with an intravenous vein.
| The family of the kidnapper Qusay al-Nur Ali Adam worried about his fate (Al Jazeera Net) |
Recurring scene
In the house of Nur Ali Adam, the same scene is repeated. His son Qusay, 21, is kidnapped in the remote desert. His father says that Qusay is the one who helps him raise ten children, as well as providing treatment for him and his wife. "Since we saw the video, the people of the house refrained from eating and drinking," he says.
Suad Mustafa, the mother of Qusay, does not stop repeating, "My son, Sindi, the choice of the house ... I pray that we will reunite and return to his marriage."
The rest of the hostages are five young men from villages around the town of "24 Al-Qurashi" located in the south-west of the agricultural extension project of the island project, 112 km from the capital Khartoum.
From this region, Babeker Abdul Muttalib is from the village of Ghaniwa, Abidin Abbas from the village of Elias, Saif Mohammed from the east of the transport, Balil al-Tarifi Siraj from Hilla Bashir and Hamza al-Fadl Ibrahim from the village of Shuwairf.
The youngest is Abdeen, 18, and his brother, Ali, told Al Jazeera.net by telephone that Abidine had traveled to Libya to help him take responsibility for the family.
| Families used to gather in the house of Mohammed Abdul Baki Marji to support the family since the kidnapping (Al Jazeera Net) |
Ali appealed to the Sudanese authorities to pay attention to the issue, warning that "all the villages here have watched the video, and say if the government did not care about the case will be neglected the whole island."
The seven Sudanese boys appeared in a video clip, chained, and the bargaining seemed more present than the kidnapping for money, as was customary in that desert.
And between Mossadeq and lying, activists treat the sites of communication with the section, but slowly reveals that the story is real, young people from one area in the state of the island in central Sudan.
Government approval
The situation was further confirmed by Interior Minister Ahmed Bilal's announcement of the incident. He promised in a statement to the Sudanese Center for Press Services last Tuesday that the hostages would be rescued, and Mohammad Mukhtar, head of the Foreign Relations and International Cooperation Committee, said the issue would be a priority for the council.
The head of a committee consisting of the families of the abducted Ali Mohamed Ahmed al-Hasan, the representative of the department from which the kidnappers are descended, told Al-Jazeera.net that immediately after receiving complaints from the people of his department, he verified the incident and then made official contact with the Foreign Ministry through Deputy Minister Yasser Khader. Foreign Affairs, Legislation and Justice in Parliament.
| Ahmed Bilal Osman pledged to rescue hostages (Al-Jazeera - Archive) |
A video of the kidnappers showed the hostages marching in a desert area chained to guarded by gunmen, calling for President Bashir to release them and blaming the Sudanese consul for failing to respond to their contacts.
The horror triangle
An eyewitness told Al Jazeera Net about the application of the circumstances of hostage-taking from the Kilmenga mine, which he says is based on a remote border triangle between Libya, Chad and Niger.
The witness insisted on anonymity because he was in a dangerous area. The hijackers filled their eyes. The story begins with the first week of last November, when the miner, a local resident, surreptitiously asks relatives of President Omar al-Bashir of the island state to kidnap him and bargain. Sudanese authorities to release his son arrested in Khartoum on the charge of murder.
The liquid mine workers reported that young people from the island region, some working in commerce, and others working in a restaurant serving gold diggers, had nothing to do with the president.
The witness went on to tell him that on that day we lost and searched for him for a week without success. After that, the same person arrived in the same evening after the mechanics of the mine stopped working with eight gunmen and took six others, all from the island state.
The eyewitness confirmed that the kidnappers were from one of the most influential Libyan tribes in the mine area. They did not want a ransom but, according to relatives of the hijackers, intended to bargain the hostages with one of their children who had been arrested in Khartoum for months. And disassembling them.
The demand for quick government intervention is all that the witness asked, fearing the execution of the kidnappers threatened to liquidate the hostages in the event of the death sentence of their son among those involved in the murder of currency traders.