Canadian Oil Company Ordered Ethnic Cleansing in Sudan
Anti-Slavery Group Responds to "Smoking Gun" Implicating Talisman: Internal
Document Cited in NYC Law Suit
March 5, 2002
NEW YORK, NY - The American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG) has reacted sharply to new evidence that Talisman Energy of Canada requested that the Sudanese Army ethnically cleanse its oil fields in Southern Sudan. The request resulted in a major offensive on civilian villages, which savagely reduced the population in the area by 50%.
AASG President Charles Jacobs pointed to a secret Sudanese police communiqué reporting an incipient attack on African villages near Talisman's oil fields at the behest of the Canadian oil company. "For over two years, we have said that Talisman bears responsibility for slave-raids and genocidal attacks in Sudan," Jacobs stated. "This document looks like the smoking gun… the first direct link we have seen between the ethnic cleansing and corporate decisions by the oil companies themselves."
The memo, issued on May 7, 1999, reported that "… fulfilling the request of the Canadian Company (Talisman)… the armed forces will conduct cleaning up operations in all villages from Heglig to Pariang."
Two days later, a major offensive was launched and villages from Heglig to Pariang were destroyed. A Canadian Foreign Ministry report described how civilians were killed, homes and whole villages destroyed, foodstocks looted or burned, humanitarian aid forced into flight. It is estimated the attacks reduced the overal population in the county by 50% -- all so that oil could be more easily extracted.
The secret document, issued from Petroleum Security Headquarters in Khartoum was cited as part of the amended complaint filed by Carey R. D'Avino, Esq. And Stephen A. Whinston, Esq., of Berger & Montague, P.C. against Talisman and the Republic of Sudan. The complaint is taken on behalf of the Presbyterian Church of Sudan, and the Nuer Community Development Services in U.S.A., a charitable organization whose members include more than 10,000 Sudanese refugees currently living in the United States.)
"America leads the civilized world in a war against terror," Jacobs said. "Here is a Western oil company, trading its shares on the New York Stock Exchange, instigating and funding the same jihad-terror that struck America."
Jacobs said, "the Senate has been holding up legislation (the Sudan Peace Act) which would bar Talisman from funding its operations on Wall. St. The House voted 422 to 2 to deny Talisman access to U.S. capital markets. Perhaps this secret Security memo will spur the Senate to finally act."
The complicity of oil development in the ongoing destruction by the radical Islamist regime in Khartoum of Christian, moderate Muslim and animist Civilian populations in Southern Sudan has been chronicled by Amnesty International, the UN, the Canadian foreign ministry, Human Rights Watch, and Christian Aid (UK).
The Canadians have the balls to complain about Haliburton ?
Anti-Slavery Group Responds to "Smoking Gun" Implicating Talisman: Internal
Document Cited in NYC Law Suit
March 5, 2002
NEW YORK, NY - The American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG) has reacted sharply to new evidence that Talisman Energy of Canada requested that the Sudanese Army ethnically cleanse its oil fields in Southern Sudan. The request resulted in a major offensive on civilian villages, which savagely reduced the population in the area by 50%.
AASG President Charles Jacobs pointed to a secret Sudanese police communiqué reporting an incipient attack on African villages near Talisman's oil fields at the behest of the Canadian oil company. "For over two years, we have said that Talisman bears responsibility for slave-raids and genocidal attacks in Sudan," Jacobs stated. "This document looks like the smoking gun… the first direct link we have seen between the ethnic cleansing and corporate decisions by the oil companies themselves."
The memo, issued on May 7, 1999, reported that "… fulfilling the request of the Canadian Company (Talisman)… the armed forces will conduct cleaning up operations in all villages from Heglig to Pariang."
Two days later, a major offensive was launched and villages from Heglig to Pariang were destroyed. A Canadian Foreign Ministry report described how civilians were killed, homes and whole villages destroyed, foodstocks looted or burned, humanitarian aid forced into flight. It is estimated the attacks reduced the overal population in the county by 50% -- all so that oil could be more easily extracted.
The secret document, issued from Petroleum Security Headquarters in Khartoum was cited as part of the amended complaint filed by Carey R. D'Avino, Esq. And Stephen A. Whinston, Esq., of Berger & Montague, P.C. against Talisman and the Republic of Sudan. The complaint is taken on behalf of the Presbyterian Church of Sudan, and the Nuer Community Development Services in U.S.A., a charitable organization whose members include more than 10,000 Sudanese refugees currently living in the United States.)
"America leads the civilized world in a war against terror," Jacobs said. "Here is a Western oil company, trading its shares on the New York Stock Exchange, instigating and funding the same jihad-terror that struck America."
Jacobs said, "the Senate has been holding up legislation (the Sudan Peace Act) which would bar Talisman from funding its operations on Wall. St. The House voted 422 to 2 to deny Talisman access to U.S. capital markets. Perhaps this secret Security memo will spur the Senate to finally act."
The complicity of oil development in the ongoing destruction by the radical Islamist regime in Khartoum of Christian, moderate Muslim and animist Civilian populations in Southern Sudan has been chronicled by Amnesty International, the UN, the Canadian foreign ministry, Human Rights Watch, and Christian Aid (UK).
The Canadians have the balls to complain about Haliburton ?
