Black Sudanese forced death march to South Sudan

While the world media and much of the Black community in north America was transfixed on the horrors of New Orleans and Katrina, President Bush and the oil lobby has forced a death march of millions of poor starving black Sudanese over 700 miles to southern Sudan.

A US, Japan and European Union pledges of 4.5 billion-dollar World Bank managed development program funding for the southern Sudan economy drives the death march south.

According to an UNICEF Baseline report published in June 2004, 21.5 percent of Sudanese children under the age of five are suffering from global acute malnutrition – the highest in the world. The primary school completion rate is two percent – the lowest in the world.

Of the 500 million dollars that has been requested for recovery and development assistance in southern Sudan in 2005, only 25 million dollars has been received and a further 25 million dollars has been promised according to the UN humanitarian coordinator in Sudan. That’s about 10 dollars per person planning to return to the war torn South Sudan.

No major western media outlet is questioning why the Bush administration is pushing the southern migration during the high rainy season. Thousands of Black Sudanese are dieing every day, but nothing is being reported in the western press.

The growing degree of death and homelessness taking place in New Orleans refugee camps is on the scale only comprehensible in terms of places like Darfur, Sudan. New Orleans also provides a clear understanding to the Bush adminstration plan for southern Sudan.

The pattern of abuse in New Orleans is continuance with the oil multinational nightmares across Africa. Many of the oil company’s spooks in and outside of government are now work both crises at the same time. Paul Wolfowitz one of the chief artcihects of the federalization of the Louisana National Guard is now surpervising the Sudanese death march.

Over 4 million displaced Sudanese are being forced to unwilling return to their destroyed home and villages in southern Sudan during the high wet season with no food, money or seeds for the fall planting. 200,000 Southern Sudanese are living in UN death camps. Two million alone are being forced to migrate from the capital over 600 miles back to southern Sudan. Most of the young Sudanese children being force south were raised and educated in the industrialized north and have no skills to survive in the farm-based southern Sudan.

The Black Sudanese are being beaten, rapped, murdered and enslaved as they walk southward by the Janjaweed and other militias.

In exchange for allowing the CIA and US Special Forces to establish operational bases in Sudan and share terrorist intelligence, the Bush administration is looking the other way, as Sudan central government is being very slow in disbursing much need funds to SPLM agreed to in January a accord, to the new South Sudan administration. Thus passive aggressive US policy is creating new unnecessary pickets of starvation in Darfur and South Sudan. There continues to be intense infighting between the North and South in negotiations over the new border separating the two states.

The administrative issue of the western territory, which includes Darfur, is not finalized.

United Nation emergency food rescue and social funding level are less than 50 percent of projected need. Organized Black resistance movements are forming in east and west Darfur reaching out to the SPLM for leadership against the central government.

Planned collapse of fragile social service delivery system

The addition of millions of unplanned displaced Sudanese will collapse the already fragile and strained social service delivery system of southern Sudan. The SPLM leadership authority is already be seriously threatened by social and political triage and tribal fragmentation.

The Bush administration and World Bank are fully aware of this deepening collapse of social services in southern Sudan.

Paul Wolfowitz and the World Bank is surperisving the southern Sudanese death march order is try and overwhelm what is left of the southern Sudanese social services delivery infrastructure.

Wolfowitz hopes this US imposed acute malnutrition and starvation of returning southern Sudanese will politically force the SPLM leadership to submit to the World Bank takeover and control of the emerging southern Sudan oil wealth exchange for immediate release of badly needed donors relief funding.

The World Bank is trying to extend its financial control of the Cameroon-Chad pipeline to new oil production in southern Sudan.

Swiss banking system vs. World Bank

The recurrently assassinated Sudanese leader Dr. Garang and the SPLM leadership have carefully over 20 years created a powerful and growing independent Swiss-London based banking system to run southern Sudan. This totally independent banking system directly threatens the oil lobby and Bush Administration plans to consolidate neo-colonial control of southern Sudan through control of the national bank system.

The investment power of Wall Street needs to be allowed to turn the human nightmare of Darfur and southern Sudan into one of Africa’s rare success stories.

US investors need the opportunity to share in the southern Sudanese human struggle and Black investment firms must stop passing the humanitarian aid hat around and allow the development of the richest country in Africa.

The Southern Sudanese are trying to change the matrix of thinking about landlocked East African growth potential.

The German railway builder Thormaehlen Schweisstechnik AG is starting construction of a multi billion-dollar mass transit system linking hundreds of cities in southern Sudan, Uganda and the Kenyan with the port of Mombassa, on the Indian Ocean.

This project is the second phase of the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement master plan to buildout an integrated oil pipeline, railroad and highway mass transit in East Africa in order to open massive trade.

This modern mass transit system is designed to free East African economies from either exporting via the Chad-Cameroon pipe line service roads to the Atlantic Ocean or being forced to export via ports in Northern Sudan to the Red Sea. Both of these routes have historically been very expensive for most goods.

This has been a key factor is limiting East Africa’s economic competitive advantage and causing massive starvation.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is crash training the core bankers and staff to open branches of the Southern window of the Central Bank in all regions of the South.

According to the Sudanese finance minister, an account was open in February, 2005 in the Central Bank of Sudan to allocate in it the shares of southern Sudan government of oil exports revenues and another account for its share of the locally used crude oil. These two accounts are to keep in the Central Bank in the capital of Khartoum under the control of General Omar el-Bashir.

This Sudan central government controlled virtual bank is another attempt to control the flow of investments into southern Sudan. Also, World Bank developed and staffed banking structure is designed to politically and financially challenge the independent millions of dollars accumulating in Swiss- London-based bank accounts.

The South Sudan window at the central Bank of Sudan is the final step before the World Bank calls for asset-freeze of all SPLM accounts.

These foreign accounts form the core and structure of the real central bank of state in waiting of South Sudan. The SPLM-owned holding company Nile Petroleum Oil corporation and the multi million-dollar White Nile Oil Company are under attack by the World Bank, major oil multinationals and the London Stock Exchange.

Critical southern Sudan development funds are currently free of the control of the Sudanese government, the US and World Bank. The death march is designed to force these funds to be consumed by the government to save the starving people.

Legal battles over oil

As the legal battles are growing between the SPLM, the US and oil multinationals over control of the 300 billion dollar oil reserves in south Sudan, the SPLM is building a legal war chest outside the direct control of the Sudanese government. The forced death march is designed to make the SPLM draw down on these strategic financial reserves.

Lack financial infrastructure

The South Sudan is without the necessary administration and banking infrastructure to operate the southern economy or receive massive amounts of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI). Right now the South Sudan government is forced to live hand to month on 500 million dollars a year of donor’s money.

The international investment community is waiting to invest billions to help the southern Sudanese but cannot do so because there is no structure in place to make legal investment in South Sudan. The necessary legal investment instruments are not in place. The International oil lobby is exploiting this failure of the January Agreement between the SLPM and the Sudanese national government to defined the terms and outline for investment in South Sudan.

This weakness directly contributed to Dr. Garang death and keeps the SPLM at serious financial risk.

The major multinational oil lobbies in Europe and the United States have quietly and systemically pressured the London capital markets to review and try to revoke the legal status of both Nile Petroleum and White Nile Oil Company in order to contain the financial growth and power of the emerging state South Sudan. The emerging financial relationship between the southern Sudanese people and the oil multinationals is being kept of the mainstream international media.

Westren media misinformation

No mainstream media is asking why the US refused to airlift transport motor pools to southern Sudan to move the people from northern Sudan to the south. African Americans troops during WWII operated a Red-ball express in Europe.

Why has the World Bank stopped the use of US forces to provide critical the logistical support.

This extraordinary overt act of genocide by the US government against the suffering people of southern Sudan is being pushed out of mainstream western coverage of Africa.

There is a selective media blackout of the forced return of Sudanese to their former homes in southern Sudan.

The international media has physically moved its Darfur reporting staff and technical infrastructure out of Sudan and refocused its official African reporting mostly to the crisis in Niger. This is being done in order not to have to report the human drama of the death march under way in southern Sudan.

Oil lobby makes deadly move on London exchange against South Sudan

In addition, there is a growing international deinvestment campaign against Sudan that is destroying future investment potential for the state in waiting South Sudan. The major multinational oil lobbies in Europe and the United States have quietly and systemically pressured world capital markets to review and revoke the legal status of southern Sudan companies and investments in order to contain the financial growth and power of the emerging state South Sudan. One oil joint venture from South Sudan increased 13 time its Initial Offering Price (IOP) and drew in tens of million of dollars. The power European Union has allowed its institutions to attack the investment potential of critical SPLM oil ventures to try to legally take southern Sudan oil reserves.

SLMT military forces have been refused cruise missiles to defense southern Sudan

Given the arms embargo and lack of money, the southern Sudan security forces levels are unable to secure the major cities and road much less protect a new country or clear the Janjaweed forces from southeastern Sudan

Vast areas remain outside SLMT administrative control, as was the case of Vice President Garang crash near the border of South Sudan and Uganda.

The lack of a regional pave road system adds to the SLMT military burden and limited range. Also, there is the issue of foreign troops both in southern Sudan and other forces massed on the border. Particularly the 1,000 French troops and airfields in Chad positioned to take the Block Ba oil fields.

While the SLMT military forces have been administratively have been raised to the same level as the Sudanese military, they lack the force level, arms, equipment, logistical support and mobility to secure southern Sudan.

The US and western countries have refused to allow the SPLM forces to buy modern cheap short-range land-based non-nuclear cruises missiles and uplinks to military satellite-based real-time battle field intelligence or GPS locators to attack and destroy the Sudanese and Janjaweed forces known forward operational bases and air fields threatening the security of southern Sudan.

In an address before the US Congressional Black Caucus last fall in Washington, Dr. Garang warned of the possibility of a southern death march and asked for African American support for a UN funded a force of 30,000 heavily armed Sudanese, foreign and SPLM forces to neutralize the Darfur fighting.

Secretary Powell was removed from his position. The idea of a heavily armed SPLM army was rejected by the Bush administration and France, in part because it would raise the force level of 10,000 SPLA forces and integrate them deep into the UN command and control structure. Also, the southern Sudan army would be in striking distance of the French forward bases in Chad.

Also, the SPLM forces would be tactically protecting the multi billion-dollar Block Ba oil fields from a land attack from French forces from Chad. This same SPLM forces of 10,000 troops could then have been easy redeployed from Darfur and positioned to protect the masses of southern Sudanese moving south against attacks by Sudanese and Janjaweed forces. The idea was rejected by the Bush administration.

The SPLM leadership is now forced to dependent on the passive threat of US naval cruise missiles in the Red Sea.

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