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Image from link belowCalifornia Newsreel :
All About Darfur documentary http://www.allaboutdarfur.com/ 2005
Halaqah Films: Our Story Our Voice http://www.ourstoryourvoice.com/ 2007
Google preview http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2078175686067290788
Darfur's Dirty War 2005
http://news.sbs.com.au/dateline/index.php?page=archive&daysum=2005-07-13
Current
Friday, June 01, 2007
Darfur: G8 to Tell Sudan to Stop Foot-Dragging
From Reuters
A summit of major world leaders next week will send a message to Sudan that they expect Khartoum not to impede plans to end the conflict in the Darfur region, a senior Canadian official said on Friday.
http://coalitionfordarfur.blogspot.com/2007/06/darfur-g8-to-tell-sudan-to-stop-foot.html
The U.S. Role in Darfur, Sudan
Oil reserves rivaling those of Saudi Arabia?
by Sara Flounders
Global Research, June 6, 2006
excerpted from Afrikan Holocaust
U.S. interest in Sudan
Sudan is the largest country in Africa in area. It is strategically located on the Red Sea, immediately south of Egypt, and borders on seven other African countries. It is about the size of Western Europe but has a population of only 35 million people.
Darfur is the western region of Sudan. It is the size of France, with a population of just 6 million.
Newly discovered resources have made Sudan of great interest to U.S. corporations. It is believed to have oil reserves rivaling those of Saudi Arabia. It has large deposits of natural gas. In addition, it has one of the three largest deposits of high-purity uranium in the world, along with the fourth-largest deposits of copper.
Unlike Saudi Arabia, however, the Sudanese government has retained its independence of Washington. Unable to control Sudan’s oil policy, the U.S. imperialist government has made every effort to stop its development of this valuable resource. China, on the other hand, has worked with Sudan in providing the technology for exploration, drilling, pumping and the building of a pipeline and buys much of Sudan’s oil.
U.S. policy revolves around shutting down the export of oil through sanctions and inflaming national and regional antagonisms. For over two decades U.S. imperialism supported a separatist movement in the south of Sudan, where oil was originally found. This long civil war drained the central government’s resources. When a peace agreement was finally negotiated, U.S. attention immediately switched to Darfur in western Sudan.
Recently, a similar agreement between the Sudanese government and rebel groups in Darfur was rejected by one of the groups, so the fighting continues. The U.S. poses as a neutral mediator and keeps pressing Khartoum for more concessions but “through its closest African allies helped train the SLA and JEM Darfuri rebels that initiated Khartoum’s violent reaction.” (www.afrol.com)
http://www.africanholocaust.net/news_ah/darfur%20report.html
All About Darfur documentary http://www.allaboutdarfur.com/ 2005
Halaqah Films: Our Story Our Voice http://www.ourstoryourvoice.com/ 2007
Google preview http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2078175686067290788
Darfur's Dirty War 2005
http://news.sbs.com.au/dateline/index.php?page=archive&daysum=2005-07-13
Current
Friday, June 01, 2007
Darfur: G8 to Tell Sudan to Stop Foot-Dragging
From Reuters
A summit of major world leaders next week will send a message to Sudan that they expect Khartoum not to impede plans to end the conflict in the Darfur region, a senior Canadian official said on Friday.
http://coalitionfordarfur.blogspot.com/2007/06/darfur-g8-to-tell-sudan-to-stop-foot.html
The U.S. Role in Darfur, Sudan
Oil reserves rivaling those of Saudi Arabia?
by Sara Flounders
Global Research, June 6, 2006
excerpted from Afrikan Holocaust
U.S. interest in Sudan
Sudan is the largest country in Africa in area. It is strategically located on the Red Sea, immediately south of Egypt, and borders on seven other African countries. It is about the size of Western Europe but has a population of only 35 million people.
Darfur is the western region of Sudan. It is the size of France, with a population of just 6 million.
Newly discovered resources have made Sudan of great interest to U.S. corporations. It is believed to have oil reserves rivaling those of Saudi Arabia. It has large deposits of natural gas. In addition, it has one of the three largest deposits of high-purity uranium in the world, along with the fourth-largest deposits of copper.
Unlike Saudi Arabia, however, the Sudanese government has retained its independence of Washington. Unable to control Sudan’s oil policy, the U.S. imperialist government has made every effort to stop its development of this valuable resource. China, on the other hand, has worked with Sudan in providing the technology for exploration, drilling, pumping and the building of a pipeline and buys much of Sudan’s oil.
U.S. policy revolves around shutting down the export of oil through sanctions and inflaming national and regional antagonisms. For over two decades U.S. imperialism supported a separatist movement in the south of Sudan, where oil was originally found. This long civil war drained the central government’s resources. When a peace agreement was finally negotiated, U.S. attention immediately switched to Darfur in western Sudan.
Recently, a similar agreement between the Sudanese government and rebel groups in Darfur was rejected by one of the groups, so the fighting continues. The U.S. poses as a neutral mediator and keeps pressing Khartoum for more concessions but “through its closest African allies helped train the SLA and JEM Darfuri rebels that initiated Khartoum’s violent reaction.” (www.afrol.com)
http://www.africanholocaust.net/news_ah/darfur%20report.html
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