Sudan: "US Stand So Hypocritical" - Quotes from The East African Daily, Editorial March 16
Reports that the United States is continuing to supply arms to Africa's fighting groups and states, in the process fuelling armed conflict in, for instance, the Great Lakes region, are disturbing, to say the least. Kenya and Uganda are reported to be among the states that have attracted generous arms supplies from the US.
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The US also supplies weapons to the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) of Col John Garang, a separatist movement which has, for more than 15 years, fought the Khartoum regime. For the Khartoum regime is among those all over the world which the US - in its hopelessly selective and lopsided idea of human rights - stigmatises as "rogues" who sponsor international terrorism.
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If the US is genuinely concerned about human rights abuse, it should fight it with equal vigour in countries where its corporations have a vital interest in strategic resources.
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Quotes from "US Arms Continue To Fuel Conflicts"
The East African Daily (Nairobi), March 8
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America supplies weapons to the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army of Colonel
John Garang, which has for more than 15 years fought the Khartoum regime.
Arms from the SPLA, a large loosely-administered force, have ended
in the hands of private arms dealers in northern Uganda,
north-western Kenya, Sudan and Ethiopia, who sell an AK-47 rifle for
as little as $50. Some arms to Uganda have ended up in Rwanda and
DRC where the country has had allies.
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Uganda, Kenya and Angola are the only African states named in the
Conventional Arms Transfer Project's report. All three are accused of
gross human rights violations.
Mr. Virgil Bodeen, the Public Affairs Officer at the US embassy in
Kampala, could not readily say whether the US had blacklisted any
other country besides the Sudan as far as arms sales were
concerned. |
