Funding genocide

Divesting in South Africa helped end apartheid. Now it can work on the Sudanese government to end its backing of ethnic cleansing in Darfur.


Could you be indirectly financing ethnic cleansing in Darfur? It's a sobering thought. It's also a distinct possibility.

Many companies are investing on our behalf in Sudan's booming oil sector, which yielded revenues of US$4.5bn for the Sudanese government in 2006, up from a mere US$61m in 1999.

Those revenues have helped Khartoum triple military expenditure and fund proxy Arab militias in Darfur, where, since 2003, 2.5 million Africans have been driven from their homes and up to 400,000 murdered in a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing. Sudan's minister for humanitarian affairs, Ahmed Harun, has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for his role in recruiting, arming and paying the militias.

As Archbishop Desmond Tutu recently told European leaders - and ......Read more >>>>>