Sudan kidnap: Talks start
Charitable organisations have started negotiating with the kidnappers of five foreigners in Sudan, and the captives are well and held in good conditions, said a spokesman for the Exterior Affairs Ministry yesterday. The previously unknown South Sudan Liberation Front captured the two American missionaries, a Canadian, a Dutchman and a West German last Thursday in Boma, southern Sudan.
“They appear to be held in a house and have a certain (amount of) freedom,” according to reports from the Canadian High Commissioner in Nairobi, said the Exterior Affairs Ministry. The negotiators did not
seem about to make “major concessions which would only encourage” similar incidents.
The kidnappers had not demanded a ransom from the Governments concerned. But earlier they demanded a message be broadcast by radio stations and requested from the captives’ employers, diplomatic sources in Nairobi said, 120,000 Sudanese pounds (about sAustlos,ooo), 150 shirts, 150 pairs of trousers and 150 pairs of shoes. The Canadian hostage, Martin Verduin, delivered these after being released so that he could fly to Lodwar, in north-west Kenya, provided he took a wounded man with him to the hospital there and returned to southern Sudan.
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Press, 1 July 1983, Page 6
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