[Marxism] SUDAN: Darfuris made pawns in power play for oil access

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SUDAN: Darfuris made pawns in Western power play for oil

Full: http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/594/594p16.htm

Norm Dixon

If anything betrays the true attitude of the US and European governments
towards the suffering of millions of displaced people in the Darfur
region of western Sudan, it is the little publicised fact that Western
governments are allowing more than 2000 hungry and sick Darfuris to die
every single day for want of urgently needed food, medicines and shelter.

Even as Washington is brandishing the US-sponsored United Nations
Security Council resolution passed on July 30 -- which threatens
unspecified diplomatic and economic ``measures’‘ against Sudan’s
military dictatorship if it does begin to stem within 30 days the
vicious ethnic-cleansing campaign carried out by state-sponsored
janjaweed bandits -- the British aid agency Oxfam has revealed that
Western governments have not kept their promises to provide aid funds to
the more than 1.3 million refugees in Darfur and 200,000 in neighbouring
Chad.

....

Washington’s approach is in line with that recommended by Chester
Crocker, former assistant secretary of state for African affairs in the
Reagan administration. Writing in the June 10 International Herald
Tribune. Crocker urged the Bush administration to “address the immediate
crisis in Darfur, while aggressively nailing down the broader
north-south peace agreement. The Bush administration has achieved much
in Sudan... It must not be blown off course either by the manoeuvres of
the north-south parties or by those demanding a sudden shift toward an
anti-Khartoum campaign over Darfur.”

 From Green Left Weekly, August 18, 2004.
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