Since Islamic fundamentalists seized power in Sudan in 1989, the Nuba mountains have been sealed off from the outside world. The government has waged a ferocious campaign against the Nuba people, burning their villages, poisoning their wells and stealing their animals, in an attempt to wipe out the ancient Nuba civilisation and create an Islamic society.
Julie Flint travelled secretly to central Sudan, the only journalist to have gained access both to government- and rebel-held areas of the mountains.
Accompanied by Youssef Kuwa, the charismatic leader of the Nuba rebels, she talks to a senior government officer who defected because of the atrocities he witnessed while serving as a security chief in the Nuba area, and reports on a culture facing annihilation.