ALL THE PRESIDENT'S SCANDALS
Sudan war
heating up
Clinton ignores African atrocities
as China escalates aid to Khartoum

By Charles Smith
© 2000 WorldNetDaily.com


While President Clinton tours Africa this week on what is widely reported

be a mission of peace, one African nation not on his agenda is in the

of an escalating war involving China, slavery and oil.

"I can't talk about the war in Sudan," said a source at the State

who requested not to be identified. "All the people who deal with Sudan

traveling with the president this week."

"Clearly, Sudan is not in Africa," responded Dr. Charles Jacobs, president
of the Boston-based American Anti-Slavery Group. "Neither presidential
candidate has mentioned Sudan. It is as if Sudan and the whole terrible

did not exist," said Jacobs, whose group leads an effort to free slaves

in Sudan.

The 12-year-old conflict in Sudan has already claimed nearly 2 million
lives, and a recent increase in fighting threatens again to disrupt United
Nations relief efforts. On Sunday, the London Telegraph reported that
700,000 Chinese troops were in Sudan.

That number was disputed by the State Department source.

"Ridiculous," he said.

Sudanese resistance forces, however, are now collecting photographs of
Chinese-made weapons to prove the increase in Beijing's support for
Khartoum. One such photograph, a mortar bomb recently captured by

fighters (see photo), clearly shows the weapon to be manufactured in China
and appears to be date stamped as being produced in 1993.

In July, WorldNetDaily reported that Sudan had acquired 34 new jet

from China. Reports published in Aviation Week & Space Technology show

the Sudan air force is now equipped with $100 million worth of Shenyang
fighter planes, including a dozen supersonic F-7 jets.

The Chinese military support reportedly comes in exchange for oil. Sudan

the number one exporter of oil to China, and an ongoing oil pipeline
sponsored by China is at the center of the war. Amnesty International
reported that the Sudanese government is working directly with China to
ensure the security of the oil pipeline operations.

According to an Amnesty International publication, the vice president of

China Petroleum Engineering and Construction Group Corporation, Wang
Guoqing, stated in December 1999, "The Sudanese army had to protect them
from guerrilla assaults when they built the Heglig and Unity wells."

"Our workers are used to eating bitterness. They can work 13 or 14 hours a
day for very little money. The quality isn't as high, but we charge less,"
said Wang.

According to Amnesty International, "Sudanese civilians who escaped

in the area south of Heglig and fled through the Wicok area reported that
the Chinese workers were armed and appeared willing to use their guns.

reports from the area around Heglig speak of rapes committed by Chinese
workers."

After an eight-day suspension, the United Nations suspended humanitarian
relief flights into Sudan amid reports that Sudan used Chinese-supplied
radar to track and bomb the U.N. missions. According to U.N. Office of
Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs spokeswoman Rosa Malango, Sudanese

force units have recently avoided direct attacks on the U.N. missions, but
the war has intensified.

"The humanitarian missions continue," Malango told WorldNetDaily. "The

flights are on. The recent attacks were not directed at the airfields

U.N. humanitarian operations were working, but the bombings raised

There is a general increase in fighting on both sides. The intensity of

war is increasing on a daily basis."

United Nations Special Envoy for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Eric Vraalsen
stated that recent bombings in southern Sudan highlighted the need for a
negotiated peace settlement. Vraalsen, who is in Africa for talks with the
Sudan government, condemned "any act of war which causes injury or loss of
life to innocent civilians."

The U.N. envoy stressed that the U.N. condemned "all acts of war" in

including recent bombing raids by the Khartoum government on the towns of
Ikotos and Paluer in eastern Equateria and the recent counterattacks by
Muslim and Christian Sudanese resistance forces.

"I would use this opportunity to urge the parties to the conflict to

redouble their efforts to seek a political solution to the conflict. In so
doing, the establishment of a comprehensive, negotiated ceasefire, which
will make it possible for OLS to work all over the country in peaceful
conditions, should be very high on the agenda," Vraalsen added.

The recent increase in combat comes at a time when Amnesty International
reports that Sudanese government troops cleared the area around the town

Bentiu using helicopter gunships, some allegedly "piloted by Iraqi
soldiers."

The 12-year war has also been filled with detailed accounts of violent
atrocities. According to a May 2000 Amnesty International report on Sudan,
"government troops on the ground reportedly drove people out of their

by committing gross human rights violations."

"Male villagers were killed in mass executions. Women and children were
nailed to trees with iron spikes. There were reports from some villages,
north and south of Bentiu, such as Guk and Rik, that soldiers slit the
throats of children and killed male prisoners who had been interrogated by
hammering nails into their foreheads. In Panyejier last July, people had
been crushed by tanks and strafed by helicopter gunship," states the

International report.


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