Sudanese government started demolishing this Sudan Church of Christ (SCOC) building in the Suba region, 20 km south of the capital, Khartoum, early May 2017. (Photo: World Watch Monitor
The Sudanese government started demolishing this Sudan Church of Christ (SCOC) building in the Suba region, 20km south of the capital, Khartoum, in May. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

A new report on Sudan, published earlier this week by the Enough Project, says the US must consider Sudan’s persecution of Christians and other minority groups before it lifts the remaining sanctions against the country.

The report, ‘Radical Intolerance: Sudan’s Religious Oppression and Embrace of Extremist Groups’, says Sudan is guilty of “discreet and systematic acts of persecution”.

The government uses a ‘divide and rule’ policy to exploit differences within and between communities, according to the report, which says Sudan, among other things, “supports a group that rivals the official Church of Christ representative body”, resulting in attacks on leaders and destruction of property.

“The attacks on Christian communities are particularly brazen and noteworthy for the fact that they come as US policymakers, who hold significant leverage, scrutinise the regime’s behaviour in the wake of the lifting of US sanctions and amid consideration of further normalisation of bilateral relations,” says the report, written by Dr. Suliman Baldo, an expert on conflict resolution.

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