Didn't you say China was kinda of a stay at home country?
China Puts 700,000 Troops on Alert in Sudan
NewsMax.com
Sunday, Aug. 27, 2000
In a stunning revelation, London's Sunday Telegraph is reporting in today's editions that China has as many as 700,000 troops in the Sudan and is preparing to enter that country's civil war.
According to the British paper, for the past three years China has been bringing Chinese nationals into the Sudan by cargo jets and boats.
Ostensibly, the Chinese were to serve as guards at oil fields and facilities controlled by the China National Petroleum Corporation.
The introduction of Chinese troops comes in the wake of the military success of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) headed by Col. Johnny Garang.
Garang's forces, largely Christian, have been battling Sudan's Islamic regime which controls the country's oil region in the Upper Nile.
SPLA troops are reported to be just 10 miles from these oil fields.
The Islamic regime has made an emergency request that China crush the SPLA forces and end the country 17-year-old civil war.
Oil production began in Sudan just last year, and since then arms have been flowing in from Libya, Qatar and China.
The Telegraph cites an internal document from the Sudanese military indicating that "as many as 700,000 Chinese security personnel were available for action."
Baroness Caroline Cox, the leading human rights activist for Christians in Sudan, criticized Western governments for their complacency and complicity.
She said: "If with foreign help the NIF regime crushes all opposition we will have entrenched in the heart of Africa a militant Islamist regime aimed at spreading terrorism throughout the continent. It's unbelievably serious for the future of democracy in Africa and could happen in the next few weeks."
British companies, and Canada's Talisman Energy, have joined the Chinese to help develop its oil production facilities and pipelines.
Human rights activists have criticized Western governments for backing the militant Islamic regime in Khartoum, one that has killed civilians to clear areas for oil production.
Christian groups have also publicized the regime's use of slavery.(cont)
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