I believe the Muslims are again up to their old tricks of persecuting Christians to extinction (extermination and forced Islamisation) they are doing today what they had been doing for centuries and for which reason once solidly Christian areas like North Africa beyond Egypt, today don't have a single Christian native. And in Egypt only 10% are Christians.
Google earth adds Crises in Darfur, you must check this out
by needproof 25 Replies latest jw friends
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Merry Magdalene
http://www.afrol.com/articles/13921
The population of Darfur is presently, as the UN puts it, suffering from "the world's worst humanitarian crisis." It is well documented that the Khartoum government bares much of the responsibility for this immense suffering, which the UN calls "ethnic cleansing" and the US yesterday called "genocide". It is however also well documented that the US through its closest African allies, helped train the SLA and JEM Darfuri rebels that initiated Khartoum's violent reaction, as afrol News reported on Tuesday.
While the US and UK governments are urging the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on Sudan due to Khartoum's "acts of genocide" and to stop the humanitarian crisis, many Asian and African countries are sceptical to the sudden rush to condemn Khartoum. They suspect that the real interests behind the proposed sanctions and opening for the use of military force against Sudan is motivated by other than humanitarian motives to meet the Darfur crisis - a crisis which the West actually helped create.
After all, Sudan is believed to hold Africa's greatest unexploited oil resources, even greater than those of the Gulf of Guinea. US oil companies are barred from operating in Sudan and other Western companies are chased from the country by the Washington administration. The Canadian oil company Talisman Energy is even facing charges of "complicity in genocide and war crimes" in a US court due to its past engagements in Sudan. At present, Asian oil companies dominate the field in Sudan.http://www.energybulletin.net/925.html
The fighting in Sudan's Darfur region, which is being reported in the world press as 'ethnic cleansing' and a 'humanitarian crisis', reportedly stems from attempts to gain control over the oil resources in the region, claim Arab sources.
These Arab sources find it interesting that such skirmishes occurred when a peace agreement that would have brought an end to 21 years of north-south conflict was about to be signed. The sources point out that oil fields have recently been discovered in Darfur.http://www.guardian.co.uk/sudan/story/0,14658,1503470,00.html
A millionaire British businessman, Friedhelm Eronat, was named last night as the purchaser of oil rights in the Darfur region of Sudan, where the regime is accused of war crimes and where millions of tribespeople are alleged to have been forced to flee, amid mass rapes or murders.
....Documents seen by the Guardian suggest that Mr Eronat, who lives in a £20m house in Chelsea, swapped his US passport for a British one shortly before the deal was signed with the Sudan regime in October 2003.
US citizens are barred from dealing with Sudan under sanctions dating from 1997.
The disclosure that Britain is serving as a base for questionable African oil transactions comes in the run-up to the July G8 summit at Gleneagles, at which Tony Blair's central theme will be the need to help Africa.
The documents show that Mr Eronat may have been acting for China, which has been prominent in the new "scramble for Africa" and its oil deposits. Two Chinese corporations were given an option to buy 50% of Mr Eronat's newly acquired stake in the Darfur field. The option expired last year. It is not known whether China took it up
http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/1265/2007/02/7-174635-1.htm
"The main reason behind Darfur is oil. There is no other reason for this area to have blown like this," the LA Times quotes an oil industry consultant who's involved with some of Sudan's major oil companies. The consultant, who spoke on condition of anonymity, says it's going to get worse.
http://www.anti-imperialism.net/lai/texte.php?langue=3§ion=BQ&id=24868
When dealing with modern imperialism, the solution to the mystery is likely to be found on the principle of cherchez l'essence – look for the oil. And sure enough it turned out that Darfur was harbouring substantial oil deposits. It is also rich in natural gas and in uranium. It now turns out that the oil deposits in question are likely to rival in size and extent those of Saudi Arabia.
Having been caught with its greedy fingers round the cookie jar, US imperialism is now trying to claim that actually it is the members of the Sudanese government who are the greedy ones. However, the true picture is that the Sudanese government is working to suppress rebellions fomented in the region by US imperialism.~Merry
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purplesofa
Thanks Merry
I had no idea about the oil in Darfur. I know there are displaced people and starving hungry people and they are being killed. There is alot more going on and we need to be educated. This is the first time I ever knew about he oil there.
The fighting in Sudan's Darfur region, which is being reported in the world press as 'ethnic cleansing' and a 'humanitarian crisis', reportedly stems from attempts to gain control over the oil resources in the region, claim Arab sources.
worth highlighting again
purps
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needproof
Mmm, a big thankyou to everybody who contributed to this thread. I was away for some time yesterday so sorry I could not post oil. It seems that from what people are saying, Sudan has much oil ... AND CHINA IS INVOLVED???? Can anybody please give more info on this... actually I am going to search google now. It wouldn't surprise me, and yes, I would boycott the China Olympics.
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Gill
This is a massive crisis and so massive that I really don't know what any one can do about it.
Bush and Blair cannot go invading another Muslim country. The united Nations has as much power as a limp lettuce. The African Union is useless.
The answer?
This will be a crisis that will haunt this planet for ever. We have shown we are incapable of anything but chaos.
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jgnat
I had no idea there was a Darfur, Minnnesota. I will have to refine my google search.
I mourn the human suffering in Darfur
Needproof, I believe the China reference was tongue-in-cheek. Let's not start another rumor, shall we?
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TopHat
Merry posted: Having been caught with its greedy fingers round the cookie jar, US imperialism is now trying to claim that actually it is the members of the Sudanese government who are the greedy ones. However, the true picture is that the Sudanese government is working to suppress rebellions fomented in the region by US imperialism.
WOW! So China is not involved but the damn "IMPERIALIST of the USA" done got their hands in the cookie jar over in Dunfar. AND some Brits to! Of course you know what this means!
A rebellion by the people and for the people of the USA....WHAT ELSE!
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needproof
Jgnat: "Lets not start another rumor"
More than a rumor, Jgnat http://endgenocide.livejournal.com/3486.html
The 'Genocide Olympics': Is China Funding the Darfur Atrocities?
"One World, One Dream" is China's slogan for its 2008 Olympics. But there is one nightmare that China shouldn't be allowed to sweep under the rug. That nightmare is Darfur, where more than 400,000 people have been killed and more than two-and-a-half million driven from flaming villages by the Chinese-backed government of Sudan.
That so many corporate sponsors want the world to look away from that atrocity during the games is bad enough. But equally disappointing is the decision of artists like director Steven Spielberg — who quietly visited China this month as he prepares to help stage the Olympic ceremonies — to sanitize Beijing's image. Is Mr. Spielberg, who in 1994 founded the Shoah Foundation to record the testimony of survivors of the holocaust, aware that China is bankrolling Darfur's genocide?
China is pouring billions of dollars into Sudan. Beijing purchases an overwhelming majority of Sudan's annual oil exports and state-owned China National Petroleum Corp. — an official partner of the upcoming Olympic Games -- owns the largest shares in each of Sudan's two major oil consortia. The Sudanese government uses as much as 80% of proceeds from those sales to fund its brutal Janjaweed proxy militia and purchase their instruments of destruction: bombers, assault helicopters, armored vehicles and small arms, most of them of Chinese manufacture. Airstrips constructed and operated by the Chinese have been used to launch bombing campaigns on villages. And China has used its veto power on the U.N. Security Council to repeatedly obstruct efforts by the U.S. and the U.K. to introduce peacekeepers to curtail the slaughter.
As one of the few players whose support is indispensable to Sudan, China has the power to, at the very least, insist that Khartoum accept a robust international peacekeeping force to protect defenseless civilians in Darfur. Beijing is uniquely positioned to put a stop to the slaughter, yet they have so far been unabashed in their refusal to do so.
But there is now one thing that China may hold more dear than their unfettered access to Sudanese oil: their successful staging of the 2008 Summer Olympics. That desire may provide a lone point of leverage with a country that has otherwise been impervious to all criticism.
Whether that opportunity goes unexploited lies in the hands of the high-profile supporters of these Olympic Games. Corporate sponsors like Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola, General Electric and McDonalds, and key collaborators like Mr. Spielberg, should be put on notice. For there is another slogan afoot, one that is fast becoming viral amongst advocacy groups; rather than "One World, One Dream," people are beginning to speak of the coming "Genocide Olympics."
Does Mr. Spielberg really want to go down in history as the Leni Riefenstahl of the Beijing Games? Do the various television sponsors around the world want to share in that shame? Because they will. Unless, of course, all of them add their singularly well-positioned voices to the growing calls for Chinese action to end the slaughter in Darfur.
Imagine if such calls were to succeed in pushing the Chinese government to use its leverage over Sudan to protect civilians in Darfur. The 2008 Beijing Olympics really could become an occasion for pride and celebration, a truly international honoring of the authentic spirit of "one world" and "one dream."
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nvrgnbk
Sudan, where a mass genocide is taking place whilst we go to bed each night in our safe and sound environments (relatively). Up to 300,000 people dead so far - why the hell doesn't Blair or Bush do something about this seeing as though they are so beset with helping other people (bs)...
Terrible crises in Darfur, but what can we do?
This is heartbreaking needproof and the international silence is deafening.
Question(possibly a stupid one):
Are you being sarcastic Jourles, or are you serious?
Nvr
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P&C
Since when is it solely the US's problem?
We look out for "our" interests...DUUUUH!
Just like every other country does for itself...no foul.
Why Isn't FRANCE doing something about it?!
Come on get real.... is that all you guys can do is bash the US? The Dubby's sure trained you good... blame blame blame and be cynical about all that is "good".
***sigh***
P&C