Oil politics: the ICC's motives in indicting the Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir, have little to do with human rights issues and more to do with the strategic control of oil resources, reports Khadija Sharife.

New African › Nbr. 2009, January 2009

Author: Sharife, Khadija

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Oil politics: the ICC's motives in indicting the Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir, have little to do with human rights issues and more to do with the strategic control of oil resources, reports Khadija Sharife.

SAVE DARFUR. YOU MAY HAVE SEEN THE ADVERT, bought the T-shirt, or slapped the sticker on your windscreen. George Clooney has done so, calling it the "first genocide of the 21st century". Thanks to the campaign, initiated by Prof Elie Wiesel, the "genocide in Darfur"-declared as such by the US Congress in 2004-is now at the top of the mass media's agenda. Wiesel described Darfur as, "the world capital of human suffering, humiliation and despair ... You know that the tragedy there seems endless as well as senseless."

The Save Darfur campaign, packaged as a humanitarian initiative, uses funds to selectively and urgently publicise the iss...

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