Background:

Angelo Andrew, a Southern Sudanese Christian refugee is emigrating to the US. The day before his departure, Angelo was interviewed by Cornelis Hulsman and members of the FPA regarding the abduction of his sister by the SPLA in 1991. Angelo was also a personal friend of Hulsman who lived in the same street in Maʿādī, Cairo where Hulsman lived. Angelo did not want to speak earlier about this in a recorded interview but now that his departure from Egypt was close he felt free to speak. Angelo knew that other members of the South Sudanese community in Cairo would not like such an interview and thus he wanted to give this interview only a day before leaving Egypt.

Angelo Andrew was a leading member of the Maʿādī, Southern Sudanese community and was active with a project to produce Southern Sudanese handicrafts and selling these products so that this would generate income for the Sudanese families that were producing these.

Side A:

Addula Andrew was 18 years old when she was arrested in her home village in South Sudan along with several other women by the SPLA, during the dry season in January 1991. These women were taken to Juba, where they were allegedly under very bad living conditions. Angelo’s sister became ill and died, considering the lack of medicine available there. Angelo had only found out about her passing a week before his departure to the US in 1995. He argues there is no justice in this world and when asked why the Christian rebels of the SPLA would abduct another fellow Christian, Angelo claims that there are no rules when it comes to war.

Angelo believes both the Northern Sudanese government and the SPLA are responsible for human suffering because at the end of the day both parties are holding guns. One of the crucial issues the Sudanese people are dealing with according to Angelo is that the Northern Sudanese government mixes religion with the judicial system, causing an imbalanced way of ruling as Christians will never be allowed a seat in parliament. The solution to put an end to all the fighting and for both societies to be able to live in one country in harmony is for America to intervene and bring the SPLA and the government together to negotiate. Angelo argues that the Northern Sudanese government is insincere and it is because of this government that he has gone through life as a refugee three times. He fled to Uganda twice and it is the day of the interview that he is in Cairo and on his way to the US to escape the endless atrocities in his home country.