I was born into Sudan's civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict between the Muslim north and Animist/Christian south over the land and natural resources.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.
People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK being a common weapon of ethnic conflicts. I want to make it clear that I created my assault rifle to protect my country. You can blame politicians for its spreading out of control on a global scale.
When I was a girl, civil war in Sudan forced me to flee my home town of Wau.
When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan.
Leaving southern Sudan as a child was terrifying. It was 1985, and my family and I were trying to escape to Khartoum, the capital in the North, to safety.
Sudan cannot afford to be on the wrong side of history. The north and south will have to work together, but will they?
The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.
As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.
I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
I don't believe there's any reason for a person like myself to own an AK-47.