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...AFRICA SUDAN: Inside two of the rebel factions at war with Khartoum...
...Human Rights Watch, China National Petroleum’s investment in Sudan constitutes the company’s largest overseas project to date. The company has helped the Sudanese government build a 1,500 kilometer pipeline as well as a massive oil refinery near the capital city of Khartoum...
Some said they were too busy to launch the effort themselves or that they felt too ill-informed about PetroChina’s links to the Khartoum regime. Still others said that the impetus for a divestment campaign should come from students...
Richard Wilson, the Mallinckrodt research professor of physics, was an outspoken critic of the Khartoum regime during its conflict with rebels in the south of Sudan. And he has volunteered to join the human rights group Christian Solidarity on a mission to the eastern part of the country—although the trip was postponed due to security concerns...
...fair, however, I emphasize that at least the Bush administration has done something. China, with its expanding economy fueled by Sudanese oil, has avoided conflict with Khartoum, choosing economic progress over human rights once again. The European Union, for all of its moral posturing at the outset of the Iraq war, has been largely silent on this crisis, with the notable exception of British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The worst, however, is the Arab League, whose members relish characterizing Western military policy as neo-crusades against Islam and decrying the violent Zionism of Israelis in the West Bank, yet have...