Push Is on To Restore Constitutional Balance in Dealing With Natural Disasters
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When Simon Deng was eight years old, Arab marauders from the north of his native Sudan sacked his village and burned the tribal elders alive. The next year he was kidnapped and given to a Muslim family as their slave. His masters beat Mr. Deng, a black man from southern Sudan, forcing him to sleep with animals and overworking him to exhaustion. They promised him they would stop if he forsook Christianity, converted to Islam, and took an Arab name. But he never did.
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|When Simon Deng was eight years old, Arab marauders from the north of his native Sudan sacked his village and burned the tribal elders alive. The next year he was kidnapped and given to a Muslim family as their slave. His masters beat Mr. Deng, a black man from southern Sudan, forcing him to sleep with animals and overworking him to exhaustion. They promised him they would stop if he forsook Christianity, converted to Islam, and took an Arab name. But he never did.
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