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Article

27 Aug 2005

Author:
Eric Reeves, professor of English, Smith College, in Political Affairs [USA]

The Economics of Genocide in Sudan

...very little attention has been paid to those economic realities that explain Khartoum's ability to conduct serial genocide in Sudan...[Current] financing of genocide in Sudan derives chiefly from oil revenues... [which] now exceed $2 billion per year...[For] several years before the first export shipment of crude oil left Port Sudan, Khartoum had been engaged in substantial in-kind trading with China: future oil and anticipated oil revenues in exchange for Chinese arms... [refers to Talisman, Siemens, Alcatel, ABB, PetroChina, Sinopec]