Laughing and Lashing: A Women's Plight in Sudan - DISTURBING VIDEO

“That could the mother or sister of any of us, nothing is worse than humiliating a human being like this” - Nassir Mansour

Woman being whipped in Sudan.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - A video showing the open whipping of a woman by a uniformed member of the government in Sudan, may be the most disturbing video ever published by Salem-News.com; it certainly ranks among the worst.

This video was taken within the last few weeks, at a police station in Omdurman, Sudan. The video was recorded by a member of the police force applying what is termed as 'general behavioral law.'

The video (below) was leaked into Darfur this morning.

"Sadly, this happens all the time Khartoum," activist Rozan Ahmed said.

"Public lashings are held almost daily for two obvious reasons: to both humiliate the victim and 'remind' others to ‘behave’. Terror tactics and oppression have successfully turned most in the capital into walking zombies."

Ahmed says many living in Khartoum couldn't tell you what's happening 10km outside of Khartoum, let alone Darfur, or Southern Sudan, because they are kept sustainably ignorant.

"No stable healthcare or educational institutions, despite the oil revenues, has left many unhealthy and uneducated. State terror remains in full force, so they are scared and silenced.

"All the key ingredients required to forcibly maintaining control... while many dead bodies are found elsewhere in Sudan, Khartoum has become a bubble of dead men walking."

Alysha Atma spends many hours working on projects that support and benefit the beleaguered people of African nations who spend way too much time off the western media's radar. This writer explains that she is a culmination of all her experiences, most importantly knowledge she says, and all that she still needs to learn; lessons of love, laughter and the extraordinary giving of both young and old. She says she has the enormous fortune of learning from the best; every person around her, and the amazing strength and fortitude of those she has never met but will always strive to listen to. "I continue to work and write because I believe in the power of community and the power of one, both contradictory to each other and yet can move together in a very powerful way. I feel a responsibility to use my place, freedoms and connections here in the US to stand up and yell for those who need my voice and actions. I have seen such strength in my fellow humans that I cannot even begin to comprehend, they have traveled distances, have gone without food, water, shelter and safety for days and weeks at a time. I have a responsibility as a fellow human to put our common humanity before anything else. Everyone deserves to look towards tomorrow, to dream of a safe future and to have a peaceful present." You can write to Alysha Atma at: alysha.atma@gmail.com