Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 22:33:40 +0100
The Plundering of South Sudan
By <http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/tony-cartalucci> Tony Cartalucci
Global Research, January 13, 2014
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US AFRICOM, Israel, and Uganda's Dictator-for-Life Yoweri Museveni set up in
South Sudan, inflame conflict, push out China and prepare to take over oil.
RT's report "
<http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2014/01/who-is-to-blame-for-crisis-in-sou
th.html> Who is to blame for the crisis in South Sudan?" gave a succinct
background on the warring factions inside the new "nation" of South Sudan
and the Western genesis of the conflict. The report would state:
The SPLM has received support from the US and Israel throughout the duration
of the civil war fought between southern rebels and Khartoum, which has
historically had unfriendly relations with the West and has moved very
closely to China in recent times to jointly develop the country's oil wealth
prior to the separation. Romantic notions for self-determination did not
motivate the West to support southern secession; the objective was to
partition Sudan and deprive Khartoum of economically relevant territory in
the south where most of the oil fields lie. In exchange for the financial,
material, political, and diplomatic support received from the West, the new
government in Juba endorsed a 'Faustian pact' with its sponsors to open its
economy to international finance capital and multinational interests. The
government in Juba even applied for IMF membership before it had even
officially gained independence from Sudan.
The piece would continue by laying out the current dilemma for the West:
Despite supporting the South's independence with diplomatic muscle and
military aid, the United States has been unable to gain a foothold in the
country's oil sector; Juba's crippled economy remains dominated by Asian
companies, primarily from China. South Sudan must rely on pipelines that run
through Khartoum to export its oil, and the two countries produced around
115,000 barrels of oil per day in 2012, less than half the volume produced
in the years before South Sudan's independence. Both sides have nearly gone
to war over disputed oil fields that straddle a poorly demarcated border.
Judging from the poor economic performance of both countries since the
partition and the dramatic loss of the life in the ongoing crisis, the
experiment of South Sudanese independence is failing..
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http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pu18bQ9P_co/Us3GGDgzHYI/AAAAAAAAIRQ/sGj9NcdnTCI/s1
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Image: Violence predictably is centered around currently
Chinese-controlled oil infrastructure. The goal is to have
violence drive the Chinese out just as was done by NATO
in Libya.
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The piece would go on to note that peace deals reached leaving Sudan intact
could have avoided the deadly conflict now raging - and that of course is
correct. However, peace is not and never was the goal of the West and its
involvement in Africa - economic gain is.
Precisely because China still maintains extensive holdings in Sudan and
South Sudan's oil infrastructure, the conflict will be brought to a fevered
pitch - and unsurprisingly the conflict's epicenter corresponds with South
Sudan's primary oil producing regions. If and when the Chinese are pushed
out of South Sudan, the West will continue either across the border to
establish routes for exporting their newly gained oil wealth from the
landlocked country, or proceed through Kenya with or without the current
<http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2013/09/kenyan-bloodbath-state-sponsored.
html> government in Nairobi's backing.
The BBC would report in their article, "
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25654155> China's oil fears over
South Sudan fighting," that (emphasis added):
The stakes could not be higher for China, the largest investor in South
Sudan's oil sector, as fierce fighting continues between forces loyal to
President Salva Kiir and those of his former deputy.
Some of the largest oil fields China operates are in areas controlled by
fighters backing Riek Machar, the country's vice-president until he was
sacked in July.
Oil production has already dropped by 20% since the onset of the conflict
three weeks ago and more than 300 Chinese workers have been evacuated.
The spectre of their Libyan experience also weighs heavily on the Chinese
minds - project after project now lies deserted because of heavy fighting
during the Arab Spring uprising of 2011, inflicting huge losses on China.
Most telling of all is the BBC's reference to Libya - another nation
destroyed by Western military aggression that saw both Russian and Chinese
interests crumble overnight
<http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/11/new-libyan-pm-big-oil-goon.html>
and replaced by Western corporations. While South Sudan's chaos is being
orchestrated more covertly by the West, the final goal of pushing out the
Chinese and taking over is the same.
Similar covert destabilization can be seen all across what the 2006
Strategic Studies Institute's report "
<http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubid=721>
String of Pearls: Meeting the Challenge of China's Rising Power across the
Asian Littoral" calls China's "String of Perals." This includes US-backed
militants attempting to
<http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2013/02/us-saudi-funded-terrorists-sowing
-chaos.html> carve off the province of
<http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2013/02/us-saudi-funded-terrorists-sowing
-chaos.html> Baluchistan
<http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2013/02/us-saudi-funded-terrorists-sowing
-chaos.html> from Pakistanwhere China has established a port at Gwadar and
at another Chinese port in the state of Rakhine, Myanmar that has been the
scene of brutal, genocidal violence
<http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2012/10/pro-democracy-groups-behind-myanm
ar.html> carried out by "democracy icon" Aung San Suu Kyi's "saffron monks"
against Rohingya refugees.
Setting Up Shop in South Sudan
There is no doubt that the US and its accomplices Israel and Uganda have
decided to stay in South Sudan. The
<http://www.enoughproject.org/about/partners> US corporate foundation-funded
"Enough Project" provided the rhetorical justification for an enduring
presence in the war-torn African state in its Al Jazeera op-ed titled, "
<http://www.enoughproject.org/blogs/al-jazeera-america-op-ed-south-sudan%E2%
80%99s-salva-kiir-needs-put-his-black-hat-back> Al Jazeera America Op-ed:
South Sudan's Salva Kiir needs to put his black hat back on," which stated:
To be sure, growing pains are common in societies working to secure their
independence after years of marginalization and authoritarian rule. Building
a cohesive national identity among South Sudan's 81 ethnic groups will take
generations. Still, the looming specters of mass intercommunal violence
means we cannot afford to be complacent. The United States committed itself
to the South Sudanese people's long march toward independence decades ago.
It would be a shame if America allowed a return to war when the South
Sudanese are so close to securing their future.
With that humanitarian/freedom-promoting foot-in-the-door, the West has the
pretext it needs to meddle for decades to come.
To begin with, Israel Military Industries Ltd. (IMI)
<http://www.jpost.com/Enviro-Tech/Israel-signs-1st-agreement-on-water-with-S
-Sudan> signed what it called a "
<http://www.jpost.com/Enviro-Tech/Israel-signs-1st-agreement-on-water-with-S
-Sudan> water infrastructure and technology development" deal with South
Sudan's government in 2012. The deal allegedly covers desalination,
irrigation, water transport and purification, but a visit to
<http://www.imi-israel.com/> Israel Military Industries Ltd. website
indicates they are military contractors and arms manufacturers, not
engineers and certainly not specialists in water infrastructure.
<http://www.globalwaterintel.com/news/2012/30/imi-aims-open-south-sudan-isra
eli-firms.html> Other sources claim IMI will serve as a conduit for actual
Israeli water firms - but in light of US, Israeli, Saudi, and Qatari joint
operations elsewhere, IMI will most likely serve as a conduit for weapons,
cash, and conflict as well (or instead).
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