The sudden escalation along the oil rich border between Sudan and South
Sudan and the aerial bombing of the Heglig last month has aroused the
attention of entire international community to the African region.
Modern history has been unkind to Sudanese, who are ethnically,
culturally and religiously divided into Christians (living in South)
and Arabs (living in North). During British colonization, the two
regions were administered separately, but the South was barely
developed. The conflict dates back to more than fifty years, but the
last twenty years have been under serious civil wars between the Sudan
People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and the Khartoum government of
President Bashir. On 9th January 2011, the Comprehensive Peace
Agreement (CAP) was reached after two-decade Africa's longest and
bloodiest civil wars (1955-1972) (1983-2005) between North (Muslim
Arabs) and South (Christian Africans) , in which an estimated two
million people lost their lives. After referendum on 9th July, 2011
South Sudan finally seceded as an independent state under the rule of
Salva kirr Mayardit, as the former SPLA leader , John Garang, died in a
tragic death in a helicopter accident just three weeks after he was
sworn in as first Vice President of Sudan.
Even after the succession the ties among the two states remained
stalled and the new born South Sudan was offered little or no economic,
social or political help from the north, instead disputes continued
over provinces such as South Kordofan in the Nuba region (a state that
appears to be in the north, but South claims it to be a part of the
Southern state of Warrap), Abyei (an oil rich province) on the border,
and Blue Nile. There are also tensions regarding fate of the oil rich
border states, the landlocked South Sudan's oil pipelines that runs
northwards through Sudan and the issue of refugee influx along the
border because of the on-going bombing and killing of the civilian by
the militia i.e. SPLA- North, which is basically South Sudanese-
affiliated black rebel forces operating in Sudan against the Arab
forces in Darfur. In short, it is basically a military conflict between
Janjaweed (an Arab tribe’s militia force covertly funded and supported
by the Sudan Government) and the rebel armies, including the Sudan
People Liberation Movement (SPLA) and the Justice and Equality Movement
(JEM) over land, water and natural resources resulting in the Darfur
crisis since 2003.The internal dimension of the conflict lies with the fact that the
international community condemns South Sudan for waging an attack on
the North. Khartoum accuses the SPLA of launching aggression on its
territory; that is why it has retaliated by bombing South Sudan.
Technically, Khartoum is right as the troops fighting are the SPLA
soldiers. Yet, they are actually not from South Sudan so Juba
apparently denies its involvement in the war in Northern Sudan.
War-A Racket
Produced by Majid Khan
A US Major General Smedley Butler who served from
1898 to 1931 and saw action all over the world has
said in his book “WAR IS A RACKET” published in mid
1930s that; “WAR is a racket. It always has been. It
is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable,
surely the most vicious. It is the only one
international in scope. It is the only one in which
the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses
in lives...” In the last one century over 85 million
were killed in different wars and many more then
that were wounded. If we dig out the facts some very
horrible and strange things come out that the most
of the wars were created for to earn money by war
profiteers. If we go through the war history we find
that in WWI when whole world fighting for their
survival and defence at that crucial time at least
21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made
in the United States .who are they? They are the war
profiteers, the selfsame few who wrung dollars out
of blood in the war. In World War One 15 millions
died and 20 million were wounded. In Second World
War over sixty million were killed. After WWII, era
of cold war started during that in Korean War 2.5
million were killed. In Vietnam War over three
million were murdered. After few years Soviet Union
invaded Afghanistan and killed over a million and 4
to 5 million were displaced from their home land. In
Iraq-Iran war 500 thousands to one million people
were killed on the both side. In Iraq invasion over
a million civilian were slaughtered by US and their
allied forces. In Afghanistan hundreds of thousands
were killed and the death toll is keep rising. In
the last sixth years according to stop war
organization US wars have killed 10 million people
and many more then that were injured. If we see
deeply why these wars happened some very crucial
facts come out. In the WWI, participating countries
were losing lives of people and their economy was
also being busted but on the other side US was
enjoying the war with full benefits. The GDP and
gold reserves of US increased to double during the
war. If we look on data we find that after gaining
massive profit from WWI the war profiteers were
planning and investing for new war. Before the WWII
many US companies invested in Germany and support
Hitler Army. In 1974 a report printed by the United
States Senate Committee on the Judiciary stated
that; “During the 1920's and 1930's, the Big Three
automakers undertook an extensive program of
multinational expansion...By the mid-1930's, these
three American companies owned automotive
subsidiaries throughout Europe and the Far East;
many of their largest facilities were located in the
politically sensitive nations of Germany, Poland,
Rumania, Austria, Hungary, Latvia, and Japan...Due
to their concentrated economic power over motor
vehicle production in both Allied and Axis
territories, the Big Three inevitably became major
factors in the preparations and progress of the
war.... more...
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