Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Darfur refugees forces to joint southren death march

Political Ruse of Darfur
World Bank says walk to your own death

By IR Scott

According to BBC correspondent in Darfur, Hilary Andersson in the article Sudan's cruel and slow starvation :

I'm sitting in the dark on the edge of a camp for displaced people in Darfur. I
can hear the loud, persistent crying of one child rising above the murmur of the
camp as the people settle down for the night.

Tonight the stars are out - that means no rain. Last night was not like this at
all.

You can see it coming in the afternoons. The sky begins to darken and the
horizon goes an ominous, brown shade of yellow.

Then the wind starts and the dust of the Sahara desert whips up, blasting
whirling sands in all directions. The people start to run in their long rags,
heads bowed against the wind.

Lack of shelter
Then, the heavens simply open, the wind ferociously hurls drenching curtains of
water at everything around.

Mothers with their children, whose faces are twisted up in misery, squat
grasping the sides of their makeshift shelters - which do almost nothing to keep
them dry.

The torn plastic bags that make up the walls of their twig shelters flap madly
in the wind. The ground turns into a mire of mud.

My TV crew and I run for our shelter 15m (50ft) away. All night, the rain pounds
against our ceiling. I wake up at 0300 - it is still going on.

The people on the other side of our wall are still sitting, bracing themselves
against the wind and rain, where they were at dusk. This is what it is like most
nights for them.

Waste
In the morning we wake up to hear the children crying. In the makeshift hospital
here, set up by foreign aid workers, it is so crowded with the sick that some
are sleeping on the floors.

Among the stench and flies, the children lie wasted, staring into space. Tiny
human beings, who were born into the madness of man's inhumanity to man, into
the madness of a spate of killing that has left many of their fathers, brothers,
grandparents and uncles dead.

And now, they face starvation which is cruel and slow. Most of the children are
too far gone to eat. Some have the peeling skin and lesions that come with
advanced starvation - their skin is wrinkled, loose around their bones. The
mothers sit by powerless.

We spent two weeks in Darfur, driving through eerie, burnt-out villages, empty
of people.

We travelled to Mornay camp, where we were a month ago. On arriving back, we
went to the medical tent. It was strangely quiet inside.

Four people were sitting in a circle. A mother was looking down and sobbing
silently, rubbing her hands on her face. I realised I knew her. Then it slowly
came to me what was going on. Her daughter Nadia, whom we had spent two days
with in this tent a month ago, was dying.

The mother, Juma, was saying an awful goodbye.
We moved away in their private moment. Ten minutes later Nadia was dead.
The men took her body away to prepare for the burial. Then they emerged at the
far end of the graveyard, carrying her tiny body in their hands. They said their
prayers and laid her body in the earth.

Juma, her mother, sat on the ground. She wasn't crying any more.

Crying to the desert
After the funeral I went to pay my respects. Juma had two older women next to
her who, perhaps through custom, were telling her to hold her emotions in.
But when she saw me, perhaps remembering the filming we did with Nadia last
month, she started screaming "Nadia, Nadia, Nadia".

She fell on me, screaming, she kept screaming. She kept repeating her daughter's
name. Then the older women started screaming too.

When Juma left the graveyard I saw her walking away on her own, sobbing and
crying her child's name out into the breeze of the vast desert, into the
nothingness of the camp.

Donkeys, half starved themselves, moved around slowly. Refugees continued
collecting water and fixing their huts. This happens here every day.

Darfur is in a nightmare that is alive here today and perhaps somewhere else
tomorrow. Racial and tribal tensions, and regional disquiet, have erupted into a
war where the civilians are being punished, killed and abused.

We are adults, this is the world we live in and accept. The world we have
created for ourselves.

Will these things still happen in Africa a century from now? Will it ever
change? Why are massacres of civilians allowed to happen in Sudan? Why has
no-one even counted the dead?

BBC correspondent in Darfur Money is needed desperately now to save lives. But it has gone this far in
Darfur, because no-one really noticed or did anything to stop it. Nadia did not
have to die at all.

Settlements turn into biological killing fields
Rest stops around Durfur, Malakal and other gateway urban centers to South Sudan are being transformed into acute malnutrition triage centers and biological death camps. The increasingly large waves of returning Sudanese are creating biological killing fields because of the poor sanitation systems in the southern transit points like Malakal.

The World Bank refuses to disburse the necessary level of funding to address these immediate sanitation crisis conditions. Unlike the massive coverage of the chemically spills water in New Orleans and the nightmare that was the Super Dome and Convention Center, there are no cameras sending live video feeds of the World Bank biological death camps to westren TV sets.

The whole genocide is blackout, so it appears to not be happening outside of Darfur.

There are no daily bodies counts of the Sudan death march.

This is a critical part of the World Bank’s master plan.

The deteriorating living conditions in southern Sudan camps have already resulted in thousands of lives lost to date. The World Bank policy means thousands more of unnecessary lives, mostly women, the old and children will be lost.

The bloody dead march is observed in real time by US surveillance satellites 24/7 at US Space Command and in Washington, DC. Wal-Mart like “Rapid Needs Assessment” supplies control grids are set up to count the numbers on passing southern Sudanese. Rest stops are being transformed into sanitary death camps.

The UN sends real time death counts back to New York City UN headquarters for analyses.

The US Space Command sends real time reports to President Bush and the NEC every day on the progress of the Sudan death march.

The local Malakal leadership is starting to question how much more the social system can handle. Even at one death per 10, 000 per day, over a year for 1 million southern, Sudanese people forced to move to Southern Sudan the mortality would be a staggering 30, 650 probable deaths, for 4 million southern Sudanese, this would a genocidal 122,600 Black Sudanese. Using factors 2 or 3, to account for the increase morality rates in southern Sudan, the range is between 245,200 to 367,800 unnecessary deaths.

World Bank’s history of death marches
Like New Orleans, the Bush administration, the US Congress, African American leadership and the World Bank are fully aware of the deepening collapse of social services in southern Sudan caused by the southern death march.

North American leadership gets real time satellite feed 24/7 of the death march and knows the implications of mass murder.

The comments by Minister Pat Robertson about the need to assassinate the President of Venezuela reflect the oil lobby lack of any respect for human life or the United States Constitution of Bill of Rights. Minister Pat Robertson, a long time spiritual counselor to President Bush comment also reflects an evil culture in the White House.

The Washington-based oil lobby, Paul Wolfowitz and the World Bank is forcing the southern Sudanese death march in order to overwhelm what is left of the southern Sudanese social services delivery infrastructure.

The Bush cabal hopes this will create the moral pretext to justifying using military force to invade the region, New Orleans style to rescue the poor Blacks from a crisis the World Bank has created. Paul Wolfowitz believes that the SPLM leadership, faced with massive starvation who surrender to World Bank control.

So far Mr. Wolfowitz political calutations have been on the mark, because Black Americans remain self-consumed about the horrors in New Orleans.

The refusal of World Bank to release the critical humanitarian funding for a Red Ball express fleet of trucks and buses to transport the refugees home i.e. about 75 million dollars, is turning what is billed internationally as a mass march to freedom, into a march to death for ten of thousands of refugees.

The writer estimates that almost 250,000-400,000 Sudanese may die on the death march to southern Sudan over the next 12 months.

The above number is totally a function of whether the Chinese government is human enough to allow the SLPM use of the oil pipe services roads to move people and supplies to rest-steps and final settlements in the southern Sudan.

This would mean having Chinese Special Forces protecting the people who have been attacking their oil pipeline the last 7 years. That would require a political deal only the Cuban government and the US Black Caucus could negosciate.

After New Orleans, the Chinese do not trust either President Bush or the right wing cabal surrounding him.

Many of the former southern Sudan camps in northern Sudan are now being taken over by new waves of refugees from Darfur. These camps, according to the above BBC account are functing as staging areas to forces Darfur refugees to joint the southren deathe march to South Sudan.

International funding for northern emergency settlements are being phase out in order to force the southern Sudanese to return home.

Sudanese government funding for southern Sudan is disappearing.

The critical international funding is not following the masses of people as they migrate south across Sudan.

What remains of international funding is being focused on the Darfur crisis, not the return of southern Sudanese refugees.

The discovery of massive amounts of oil in Darfur by British oil firms and the increasing agressiveness of the Chinese oilmen is reframing the Darfur conflict. The share interest of the US, France and Great Britain around the Iranian nuclear issue is the framework of the new westren cabal against the Chinese in Sudan.

As quiet as it is being kept, international funding, because of the World Bank central role, is drying up and disappearing. The US accounts fro 70 percent of the 500 million in actual aid to southern Sudan.

Weapon of Mass murder, waterborne diseases
The conditions in the northern-central camps, particularly the sanitation and waterborne diseases that have consciously been allowed by the Khartourn government and World Bank to fall to medical triage levels.

In many cases supplies of food and medicines are so low; aid workers are forced to choose who lives and who dies.

Refugee ID’s in many case means the different between which family member eats in a camp, which starves and dies. Aid workers are reporting increase cases of posttraumatic stress syndrome (PTS).

According to the official Khartoum State Rapid Needs Assessment says the crude mortality rate in some Sudanese settlements is close to the emergency threshold of one per 10, 000 Black Sudanese per day.

Politically critical north/south Sudan settlement transit points like the oil rich Malakal region in central Sudan, just south of the Nuba Mountains range, are already overwhelmed by the return of 400,000 southern people marching south. Reportedly, the Malakal region morality rates are as high as 8 times higher as morality rates in the north, i.e.8/10,000/per day.

The addition of 400,000 returning refugees to the local economy means Malakal local people no longer have enough food and water for both the local population and the incoming waves of transient refugees.

Addition waves of refugees are leading to a serious depletion of local food supplies. Nuba and Malakal are pro SPLM strong holes, right outside the new North/South border. Also Malakal is right on top of one of the richest oil fields in southern Sudan.

This region is an economic gateway to the deep south of Sudan. Also, the Malakal region of the Upper Nile Province is where oil reserves and Chinese forces, the pro-Sudanese government South Sudan Defense Forces (SSDF) are concentrated. SSDF are heavily armed and ready for the coming water wars during the next dry seasons. The death march built many southern Sudanese will be forces to fight for very limited water access.