[extropy-chat] Genocide: The Sudan

[Jeff Davis]

--- "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury at aeiveos.com> wrote:
> 
> Kristoff has an interesting editorial on the
> situation
> in the Sudan (both good and bad) in the NY Times
> today.
> 
> Well worth a read by Extropians.
> 
> Bush Points the Way, Nicholas D. Kristof, May 29,
> 2004
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/29/opinion/29KRIS.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
>
 
>From the above article:

"This is not a natural famine, but a deliberate effort
to eliminate three African tribes in Darfur so Arabs
can take their land."

What the article does not say, not surprisingly (not
to me at least) is that Sudan has substantial
as-yet-unexploited oil reserves, so that the
"deliberate effort to eliminate three African tribes
in Darfur so Arabs can take their land" is also "a
deliberate effort to eliminate three African tribes in
Darfur so Arabs can take their" oil.

Check out the  oh-so-very-recent history of Sudanese
oil at:

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/sudan.html

and then ask yourself why it is that the NYT article
doesn't say word one about oil.

It's all about oil/money.

Best, Jeff Davis

  "During times of universal deceit, telling the
         truth becomes a revolutionary act." 
                         George Orwell


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