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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (10930)	4/10/2001 4:43:43 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

How do you figure that? The militancy of the Sudan government described in , for example, nytimes.com, shows no indication of being a particularly new phenomenon. Do you have some information that the current government is somehow different than the one describe in the article in siliconinvestor.com The Khartoum government upset this rough equilibrium, and ended 10 years of relative peace, when it began arming Arab tribes in 1985 to bolster its flagging campaign against the Sudanese People's Liberation Army, or SPLA. Roaming across remote areas over which the government has little control, "the Arabs have turned their Kalashnikovs {Russian-designed rifles} on the Dinka," says Mr. Collins, while "Khartoum has looked the other way."