Actually those are Arab Muslims who are enslaving and murdering black african Christians and Animists in the south, to clear oil land for European oil companys. Isn't that interesting, considering all the "no blood for oil" signs we have seen from the loony left in Europe?
Anyone know what Louie Farrahkan has to say about his Muslim brothers in Sudan?
Here's some excerpts from articles on Sudan that expose slavery perpetrated by Arab Muslims and the complicity of European Oil companies:
Slavery and Slavery Redemption in the Sudan:
Human Rights Watch has long denounced the contemporary form of slavery practiced in Sudan in the context of the fifteen-year civil war. This practice is conducted almost entirely by government-backed and armed militia of the Baggara tribe in western Sudan, and it is directed mostly at the civilian Dinka population of the southern region of Bahr El Ghazal. The government's purpose in arming this tribal militia, known as muraheleen, seems to be to conduct a cost-reduced counterinsurgency war against the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A), which is identified with the Dinka tribe of southern Sudan. Thus the tribal militia, often operating with government troops and usually transported into Bahr El Ghazal by military train, raids with impunity civilian Dinka villages, looting cattle and food as well as abducting women and children for use as domestic slaves and sometimes as "wives" or concubines. The abductees are considered war booty, although the muraheleen diligently avoid any attacks on military targets and do not attack villages where the SPLA might be present. Their purpose is to abduct and loot, not to risk themselves in combat. Their "war" effort is directed exclusively towards civilians, which is a gross violation of international humanitarian law.
In its reports Children of Sudan: Slaves, Street Children and Child Soldiers (1995) and Behind the Red Line (1996) as well as in its forthcoming report Famine in Sudan, 1998: the Human Rights Causes, Human Rights Watch describes the practice of slavery and provides testimonies of its victims. The abducted children and women often lead lives of extreme deprivation and cruelty at the hands of their masters. Many are physically and sexually abused, and forced to live at a standard well below that of their captors (sleeping on the floor, minimum food, no chance for education). Beatings for "disobedience" are common. They are denied their ethnic heritage, language, religion, and identity as they are cut off from their families and are held by Arabic-speaking captors, most of whom rename the abductees with Arabic names and some of whom coerce the children and women into adopting Islam....
Sudan Government Tops List of Those Causing Agony for Oil
Since Sudan began producing oil two years ago, pumping crude in fields near here, Nyekek Luok has been wandering on foot, terrified and uprooted by fierce new fighting in the continent's longest and most murderous civil war.
Ms. Luok, a peasant woman in her 30's, said government soldiers and an allied militia invaded her village last year. Five relatives, three men and two women, were killed and her 15-year-old daughter was kidnapped, never to be seen again.
"It was terrible," she said, cradling an infant in her arms. "Even if you gave birth a few days earlier, they raped you." Asked if that had happened to her, she looked down and said, "Yes."
Her account of suffering has become all too familiar in southern Sudan, where the oil fields have become the big prize in the 18- year battle between the Islamic Arab north and the non-Muslim black Africans of the south....
Latest News from Sudan at Sudan.net:
Bush extends sanctions against Sudan for another year
Sudan plans to increase oil production by a quarter
This one is dated, Canada has since pulled it's oil interest in Sudan, but it gives background:
Oil companies in Sudan complicit in depopulation of large areas:
15-03-01 Oil companies operating in Sudan are complicit in the systematic depopulating of large areas of the country and atrocities against civilians, tens of thousands of whom have been killed and displaced from the areas around the oil fields, according to a report to be published.
Christian Aid, in a searing report on the consequences of Sudan's new oil bonanza, accuses the oil companies of deep involvement in the government's war machine against southern civilians. The companies are protected by government forces and allow their airstrips and roads to be used by the military, while the revenues from oil are funding expansion of the war, the report says. The report includes dozens of eyewitness accounts from villages where people have been driven out by bombing and ground attacks.
"Oil has brought death," said one Nuer chief, Malony Kolang. "When the pumping began, the war began. Antonovs and helicopter gun ships began attacking the villages. All the farms have been destroyed, everything around the oil fields has been destroyed."
Christian Aid's report calls on foreign oil companies -- from Canada, Sweden, China, France and Austria -- to suspend their operations in Sudan. It also calls for BP and Shell to divest their shares in firms whose parent company is involved. The report accuses the oil companies of trying to distance themselves from the catastrophe of southern Sudan by claiming they are not responsible for the behaviour of companies in which they are shareholders....
A brutal regime persists in a distracted world
One essential element of the travesty in Geneva is Libya's chairing of this session of the UN Commission on Human Rights. A more grotesque spectacle is difficult to imagine. But Libya has been ably helped by the European Union, and France in particular.
...France's oil giant TotalFinaElf has enormous, but presently inaccessible, concession rights in southern Sudan. Perversely, upgrading Khartoum's human rights status makes it much more likely that the regime will be able to extend its scorched-earth tactics to “secure” these concessions for TotalFinaElf.
