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Ok, just tell me why we're not in Darfur
Briton named as buyer of Darfur oil rights

A millionaire British businessman, Friedhelm Eronat, was named last night as the purchaser of oil rights in the Darfur region of Sudan, where the regime is accused of war crimes and where millions of tribespeople are alleged to have been forced to flee, amid mass rapes or murders.
The disclosure was greeted with outrage by human rights campaigners. "From a moral point of view these people are paying a government whose senior members may end up in front of the international criminal court for war crimes," Simon Taylor, director of Global Witness, said yesterday.
Briton named as buyer of Darfur oil rights | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited


Chinaâ??s oil ties to Sudan force it to oppose sanctions

BEIJING, Oct 19, 2004, 2004 (IPS) â?? Chinaâ??s thirst for oil is jeopardising the countryâ??s ambitious drive to be seen as a trustworthy world power and its recent attempt at the United Nations Security Council to thwart sanctions against Sudan has only made matters worse, some diplomats say.

Beijing is already at pains fighting accusations that its explosive economic growth is partly to blame for the run-up in world oil prices. Now, the growing threat of United Nations sanctions on Sudan and Iran, which between them supply 20 percent of Chinaâ??s oil imports, puts Beijing in an awkward situation of having to choose between safeguarding its investments and protecting the countryâ??s international image.

Last month, the Chinese government barely managed to water down a U.N. Security Council resolution, which threatened to halt Sudanâ??s oil exports if it did not stop the atrocities in the Darfur region where pro-government Arab militias are terrorising the regionâ??s population.
SudanTribune article : Chinaâ??s oil ties to Sudan force it to oppose sanctions

France opposes UN Sudan sanctions

"In Darfur, it would be better to help the Sudanese get over the crisis so their country is pacified rather than sanctions which would push them back to their misdeeds of old," junior Foreign Minister Renaud Muselier told French radio.


France led opposition to US moves at the UN over Iraq. As was the case in Iraq, France also has significant oil interests in Sudan.

Mr Muselier also dismissed claims of "ethnic cleansing" or genocide in Darfur
BBC NEWS | Africa | France opposes UN Sudan sanctions


Britan, France, China.......all backing their own lil' groups in order the get that Black Tea. France, China, Iraq..........food for oil.......they do have a history.

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