Are the U.S. , France and Britain taking advantage of Sudan’s oil in darfur ?
he rebels in southern Darfur are getting weapons from outside Sudan. “UN observers say they have better weapons than the Sudanese army, and are receiving supplies by air,” according to Crescent International (UK). The U.S. want to get President Deby out and a new president in who relies on it, not France.–”Oil Is Behind Struggle in Darfur,” Workers World, April 27, 2006]
In 1996, the U.S. sent nearly $20 million in surplus U.S. military equipment to Ethiopia, Eritrea and Uganda to topple the government of Sudan (The Washington Post, November 10, 1996), and it would appear that the U.S. and Britain are now competing with China, Sudan’s largest trading partner, for Sudan’s oil.
Southern Darfur, like southern Sudan, is rich in oil. The Chinese National Petroleum Corporation holds the large oil concession in southern Darfur. Chinese soldiers are alleged to be protecting Chinese oil interests.
To keep Sudan in a perpetual state of war, the U.S. makes sure at least one rebel group is on the move while another is engaged in peace talks. The recent round of “Save Darfur” demonstrations have taken place during a time of negotiations between government and rebel groups, and are designed to further destabilize the country. Yoshie Furuhashi explains, “The timing of the [April 30] rally was perfect, designed to coincide — and scuttle — the Abuja peace negotiations between the rebels and Khartoum brokered by the African Union, whose deadline is midnight today. And sure enough, the rebels rejected the peace deal.” The U.S. needs rebel groups to win bigger victories, if it is to reverse China’s current advantageous position in Sudan.–Brendan Stone, “The Logic of ‘Humanitarian Intervention’: Neocolonial tool serving geopolitical interests,” GlobalResearch.ca, May 13, 2006]
The mass media in the U.S., France and Britain are writing a great deal about the suffering in the Darfur region of western Sudan and the tensions between the Sudanese government and neighboring Chad. Not surprisingly, they write very little about the economic interests these three imperialist countries have in the oil recently discovered in this part of Africa.
“The root causes of the Darfur conflict are the doing of the Jewish organizations who financed this armed rebellion,
UK’s Petrofac, Schlumberger, of France, and Sweden’s Lundin Petroleum. There are also several Chinese and Indian oil and gas operators. Petrofac could not be reached for comment.
This is a neat theory to explain why the west has taken an interest in Darfur while suffering on a similar or larger scale continue unnoticed in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Somaali. One problem though. No oil has been discovered in Darfur. http://www.robcrilly.com