Tension in Darfur and It's Relevance to Oil Supply Security

Published on New York based website: https://news.glgroup.com/CM/analysis/PostDetail.aspx?pid=16044 on 4 September 2007

“Tension in Darfur and its relevance to oil supply security”

Implications

There is some truth in the fact that the Arab North looked down upon the Black South in the 1950s and 1960s when I grew up in Sudan. Then there was civil war and thousands of lives were lost and there were thousands of refugees. 

But then USA, Europe or United Nations was not all that concerned. Now there is oil in Sudan. Now China is in Sudan. Partly, there is a perception that the current media and European leaders hyper concern about the plight of Darfurians is “crocodile tears”. 

Where were these leaders when the same atrocities happened in the 1950s and 1960s?

Where Black Africans not important then?

The efforts to secure oil supplies should not tarnish the West’s image of fair play by harping too much on the crisis in Darfur. Yes there is some crisis. But it is not brought about by deliberate wrong doing. It is mainly brought about by scarcity of land and resources and poor people fighting with each other for share of a small pie, lack of rain and draught, poor cultivation skills. 

Analysis

If USA and Europe are not extremely truthful in the words and deeds in Darfur, then their efforts will be discredited and they will not achieve the objectives they are hoping to achieve. It will be another Iraq and it will bring discredit to US and Europe.

Nagin Khajuria FCCA

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