It has all happened before, and it’s happening again. The Road to Hell does not end in Sudan, but for many of the good people out to "Save Darfur," it has certainly begun there.
By Adel – PeaceMaker
January 2, 2010
The conflict in Darfur is deliberate and indisputable campaign of genocide that the Government of Sudan (GOS) is waging against impoverished African tribes in Darfur. It has ruled Sudan from its capital, Khartoum, since the early 1990s, it has pursued foreign petroleum exploration and extraction in parallel with a scorched earth campaign marked by genocide against South Sudan and, now, Darfur.
The Darfur conflict revolves around oil and minerals, including uranium. These resources have set off fierce competition. The existence of these resources in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region has added a new twist to a bloody conflict, potentially turning the quest for peace into a tussle over resources.
Uranium ores were discovered years ago around the Nuba Mountains and in southern Kurdofan. Minex Company of the US obtained exploratory concession in the Kurdofan area in 1977, and the concession was increased in 1979. Uranium reserves (Israel covets uranium reserves are in Sudan for its nuclear programs) are also believed to exist near the western borders with Chad and Central African Republic.
Petroleum and other companies’ alliances with the Government of Sudan include Total Corporation, Agip, Talisman Oil, PetroChina and Asea Brown Baveri. Sudan announced in April 2005 that its ABCO Corporation, which is 37 percent owned by Swiss company Clivenden, had begun drilling for oil in Darfur, where preliminary studies showed there were "abundant" quantities of oil. The Sudanese people have never benefited from these (oil) discoveries.
The operations of Talisman Oil have been connected to atrocities, is one of the powerful Adolph Lundin (a Swedish national) companies (Lundin Oil is another) with corrupt mining and petroleum operations connected to war and mass murder in Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Adolph Lundin’s Tenke Mining Corporation today holds major concessions in Katanga, DRC.
The CIA, as well as the State Department ensures that the fascists GOS in Khartoum remain in place, and have done everything possible to thwart attempts to remove it by the people of Sudan and the international human rights community. The State department has consistently downplayed the extent of the genocide.
From 1964 to 1984 Sudan was run by the corrupt US client dictatorship of Col. Jaafar Nimeiri. In March of 1984, Nimeiri instituted a purge against Islamic society, including mass arrests, executions and torture. Draconian IMF and World Bank "reforms" led to starvation, unemployment, mass riots and state repression.
Understand the conflict in Darfur means understanding Darfur’s relationship to other states in the region. The US is working with others through its proxy forces and regional allies on the frontline states of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Chad and Uganda. The geopolitical alignments and ongoing regional struggle reflect both deep divisions amongst the elites in the United States and Europe, and a hydra of multinational corporate and mercenary interests.
Every new contract signed in Khartoum makes it clearer that this genocide is fueled by the world's unquenchable thirst for petroleum. Oil rigs are now drilling on land seized from African farmers—who have been killed, raped, and driven off their land by their own government, in a campaign of ethnic cleansing.
There are some very interesting characters connected to US oil and defense companies, like JackandPanther LLC, a privately-held military and aerospace consulting firm whose clients include top Pentagon agencies; Texaco; the US-Saudi Arabian Business Council; the American Petroleum Institute; United Technologies Corporation; Conoco Oil (a DuPont subsidiary involved in Somalia); H.J. Heinz Company, of the Heinz family and the world’s premier aerospace and defense behemoth, Lockheed Martin (a major financial backer of the global "humanitarian" organization, CARE, which is also working in Darfur).
How many connections to unaccountable military agencies, programs, institutions, corporations, mercenaries, rebel factions, or other questionable "parties" do we need to identify before we can determine that there is much more to Darfur than meets the eye?
With covert military operations and private military companies, the "humanitarian" relief and international charity industries, backed by multinational corporations and private profiteers, are the very foundations of the Darfur problem. Petroleum is one of the many spoils of this war.
This is not the appropriate behavior of humanitarians. It is the behavior of pigs at a trough and it applies to the entire misery industry.
Most global conflicts revolve around Big Oil and most global conflicts revolving around Big Oil involve the US military (the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Chad, Sudan…). The oil in southeastern Darfur is well documented, and that is why people have been driven from their homes to make way for the pipeline and drilling, as they have been in Kurdufan, and the Upper Nile regions.
If we reduce the Darfur conflict to the simplest terms, is that it is about oil. How do some powerful multinationals connected to the Anglo-American-Israeli power structure, with the cooperation of the Government of Sudan, get a piece of the Darfur oil pie?
- Create instability and chaos that gives the appearance of Arabs fighting Africans.
- Wage a media campaign that focuses public attention on the rising instability.
- Whip up public opinion and fury among a highly manipulated Western population who quite literally, believe anything.
- Demonize the "populace liberation movements" and their partners.
- Onward Christian soldiers and their "humanitarian" armies; enter "Save Darfur!" and, voila! A movement is born.
- Continue to chip away at the power of the populace liberation movements by chipping away at their credibility.
- Under the banners of high moral accord, and with full support of a deeply caring Western public, overthrow the malevolent forces and instill a benevolent, peace-loving, pro-democracy government.
- Finally, wipe away the sanctions, no longer needed, and bring much-needed "development" to another under-developed country. And there you have it: yet another civilizing mission to conquer those Arabs, and those starving, helpless, African tribes.
The US [oil] Foreign Policies have targeted Darfur’s oil by any means necessary. There is far more oil in Sudan than any of the oil companies is admitting publicly. Some “oil consulting firms”, states that there are an estimated 2.62 billion barrels of oil reserves in Sudan. But other unofficial estimates put the figure at 180 billion barrels.
At today's oil prices, 180 billion barrels is enough money for most CEOs to sell their soul to the devil for it.
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