Tactical Use of Genocide in Sudan

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long and well sourced article that exposes the USA's interest in the genocide in the Sudan...<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=GER20060217&articleId=1994">www.globalresearch.ca/ind...cleId=1994</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Tactical Use of Genocide in Sudan and the Five Lakes Region<br><br>by John Bart Gerald<br><br>February 17, 2006<br>GlobalResearch.ca<br><br> When food production is disrupted by war there are few defences to natural disaster.<br><br>Interrelated wars of varying intensity continue in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Chad, Uganda, Rwanda, Congo. Much of East Africa is starving.<br><br> Amidst the terrible suffering we find the United States and its principle humanitarian organizations insisting that the Government of Sudan is committing genocide. This was officially decided in 2002 with the Sudan Peace Act (1), and the position is dutifully echoed by U.S. officials, many government funded NGO’s, and the U.S. news media.<br><br> If nations of the world agreed that a verifiable genocide were occurring, it would allow the U.S. to occupy Sudan and gain its assets. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>There is profit for the U.S. in deciding that Sudan’s Government has committed genocide.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> The nations of the world did not agree. The Director of the World Health Organization stated last summer it was not a genocide(2). Medecins sans Frontières workers have reported it is not a genocide(3). And finally the U.N. decided it wasn’t a genocide(4). Yet something terrible has happened there.<br><br> Over four million Sudanese became displaced, according to a 1999 estimate(5), and the subsequent diminished figures suggest the accounts are juggled. In the South of Sudan alone two million have died from war and starvation brought about by a rebellion and guerilla war. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>When peace was finally made</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> between the Government of Sudan and the rebel forces in the South (SPLM/A), Jan. 9, 2005,(6) <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>the rebels were able to claim the land they won</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, to negotiate <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>and sell its substantial oil concessions</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->. So the war and rebellion was something other than tribal differences or raids for slaves.<br><br> The leader of the Southern rebellion, John Garang, went to Grinnell College in the U.S. and was trained at the U.S. Army command school.(7)<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>