Sudan Says West After Country's Oil, Gold

[Dover]

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Thursday accused Western nations of interfering in its troubled western Darfur region to try to exploit Sudan's gold and oil resources.

Sudan is under intense international pressure to rein in Arab militias, accused of looting and burning African farming villages, and provide security for more than 1 million people displaced by the fighting in the remote area bordering Chad.

If not, the U.N. Security Council in a July 30 resolution says Khartoum could face unspecified sanctions. There has also been talk of possible foreign troop intervention in Darfur.

Bashir on Thursday said Western nations, especially Britain, were inflaming the Darfur fighting to destabilize wider Sudan.

"There is an agenda to seek for petrol and gold in the region," he told a women's union meeting on Darfur in Khartoum on Thursday.

"This highlife that they (the West) enjoy now is a result of the theft of the colonies and their riches and peoples," he added with specific reference to Britain, which granted Sudan independence in 1956....cont'd

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5955941

[amber dog democrat]

1. What! they have OIL and GOLD ?

Then we are sending in troops to HELP spread democracy and let freedom reign!
( because they HATE our freedoms )

[Dissenting_Prole]

2. Sudan has gold and oil?!!!!

Maybe genocide can be prevented there after all. Hmmm.

[Spentastic]

3. Genius

Yeah, somone should point out to the Sudanese that if they wish to keep bombing their own citizens and raping refugees they would be better off not admitting that they have oil and gold.

Red rag to a bull. There will be U.S marines all over the place within minutes.

Next thing you know some numpty Sudanese politicians will be claiming they have WMD!

[Dover]

4. Ahhhhhh....but do THEY have Coke and McDonald's? I think not!

It's not like we're going in empty handed...

[Zynx]

5. Sudan's government is unquestionably horrible.

Don't minimize that if indeed there is Western interest in plundering the country. The fact remains that the government is still committing genocide.

[D-Notice]

6. Is what their govt doing similar to the Zimbabwe govt?

One govt based on an ethnic group, trying to wipe out another ethnic group?

If so, is there oil & gold in Zimbabwe?

[PsN2Wind]

7. And we should help stop genocide there

Stealing their resources is just a bonus.