Ghosts haunt forgotten former Sudan slave

KHARTOUM, Sudan (Reuters) -

Ezekiel Ibrahim spent nine years working as a slave in Sudan's South but even after escaping his captors, he was shackled to the ghosts of his past.
Images of his captors tormented his mind and drove the 17-year-old to attempt suicide by slicing at his throat with a blunt knife.

"They came to me at night and they wanted to kill me, so I cut my throat but I felt nothing," said Ibrahim, who has been diagnosed with psychotic depression. A dirty shirt had been tied around the infected wounds in his neck.

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The nomadic tribes, known locally as "Murahileen," abducted women and children who were used as workers, sex slaves or forced to marry their captors.
Ibrahim was taken when he was just 7 years old.

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Ibrahim, a Christian, was also forced to convert to Islam -- the religion of his captors -- and taught by Islamic teachers every day to memorize the Koran. He was renamed Mohamed.

"They used to write verses and then wash off the ink and make me drink the dirty water," he said.

The Islamic teachers still haunt his sleep.

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