Monday, August 02, 2004

The mask of altruism disguising a colonial war.
Oil will be the driving factor for military intervention in Sudan.

If there has to be a "military intervention" in Darfur, it should be by
the African Union troops. Not by westerners, except in a back-up role,
giving strength to the mission that it might otherwise lack. The wars
in Sudan, which have totally local reasons, natural resources, fight for
arable land etc, would then not be mixed up with the holy war the
western fanatics are fighting with their muslim brethren. The people
of Sudan shouldn´t be drawn in to this global conflict.

The government in Khartoum deserves to fall. The problem is, that no one
is ready nor willing to participate in "nation building" in Sudan - the biggest
country in Africa - after Iraq. Khartoum government would probably fall
easily - but after that, what?

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