Soon I, a southern Sudanese Christian, began to see the effects, including the confiscation
of land, destruction
of churches, forced conversion to Islam, raping
of women and severing
of limbs for violating Shariah’s dictates. For my part in a student demonstration opposing the regime, I was later arrested and tortured.
In 1988, I fled Sudan for this country. A year later, a military coup in Khartoum brought the most extremist, pro-Iranian forces to power.