KHARTOUM (AFP) — Darfur rebels on Sunday said freshly deployed Chinese peacekeepers were not welcome and as Khartoum's "allies" in Sudan's war-ravaged western region threatened they were not immune from attack.
China, the biggest buyer of Sudan's oil and which sells the country weapons, has been accused of shielding Khartoum -- blamed for fanning the violence in Darfur -- from international sanctions.
"Our position is clear, the Chinese are not here for peace and they must leave immediately," Justice and Equality Movement commander Abdel Aziz el-Nur Asher told AFP by telephone one day after Chinese engineers arrived in Darfur.
"Otherwise, we will consider the Chinese soldiers as part of the government forces and we will act accordingly," said Asher, who is also a brother of JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim.
The 135 Chinese arrived as part of the vanguard of a joint African Union-UN peacekeeping mission set to take over from poorly equipped African troops next year. A total of 315 Chinese engineers are expected in Darfur by next month.
"China is complicit in the genocide being carried out in Darfur and the Chinese are here to protect their oil interests in Kordofan," a region to the east of Darfur where JEM recently carried out an attack on an oil installation. Read more >>>>>>>>>>
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The jackals who feed upon us
Fed upon the U.S. Civil War:
The truth is found in history.
The jackals are here, we plainly see;
Now they encourage our civil war!
Black on black is what they want.
Brother against brother is fine.
Then the masters of genocide,
Who’ll cheer when all have died,
Can otherwise invest their time.
Economic hit men is what they are:
They seduce a nation’s leaders first
And promise them a delicious piece,
To get rich on the innocent deceased.
These hitmen save the leaders for the worst.
After all these centuries ...
Do Africans not know their history?
All of the new white faces
Have demonstrated they are racists.
Why they’re helping us now is no mystery.
A jackal ready to cross a river
Offers a mouse a ride, too.
The mouse said, “Please don’t eat me.”
When the jackal bared his teeth
He said, “Too bad, that’s what I do.”
Jamming the radio is foolish.
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Till all the encroachers are overrun ...
For all of the suffering we have incurred.
There are profits but only short-term,
Then the jackals will show their teeth ...
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And leave ALL the people to cry and die.
On our bodies these jackals will feast.
Blood is more noble than oil.
The people should make peace with leaders
And the leaders should give ample thought:
That brothers and sisters cannot be bought.
The jackals have already built their nations with our people!
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