Sudan Genocide in the South. Again.

Not content with its continuing efforts to wipe out
its black co-religionists in Darfur, the Arab Muslims
of Khartoum appear to be all set to have a second go
at the South Sudanese Animists and Christians.

Without anyone anywhere protesting much, the Khartoum
regime spent twenty years trying to impose sharia on
the non-Muslim South. Its jihad resulted in 2 million
dead ( the highest mortality of any conflict since WW2 )
and was characterised by mass rapes, enslavements and
forced conversions to Islam. Worn down by the obstinate
bravery of the Southerners, Khartoum was eventually forced
to the negotiating table. At Nairobi, in January 2005,
after much gnashing of teeth, it signed a Comprehensive
Peace Agreement ( CPA ) giving the South autonomy for six
years to be followed by a referendum on independence.
The agreement also stipulated that during the six year
interim period, the revenues from the South's rich oil
resources would be equally split.

Although none of the Khartoum Muslim war criminals have
been indicted, the CPA had at least brought the South
a few years peace and the prospect of self determination.
Now though, the signs are that Khartoum, backed by China,
is reneging on the agreement, manoeuvring to grab the
South lock stock and barrel. Already Khartoum's chief honcho
Omar Hassan El Bashir has refused to withdraw his troops
as agreed and is encouraging his militias to start raiding
again. He has also repeatedly postponed censuses and
boundary delimitations in the oil producing areas from
which he clearly plans to sweep the local population in
an imminent onslaught. For him and his mates this is
unfinished business. To be precise, it is seen in Khartoum
as an irresistible spot of unfinished and now potentially
very lucrative jihad. Which to the rest of us and in
reality is simply genocide with lots of dosh for the perps.

The West needs at the very least to impose a no flying
zone over the South. If the West does nothing, El Bashir
will gleefully drown it in blood.