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Sudan: Oil Companies Complicit in Rights Abuses(London, November 25, 2003) - The
Sudanese government's efforts to control oilfields in the war-torn south have resulted in the displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
Foreign oil companies operating in Sudan have been complicit in this displacement, and the death and destruction that have accompanied it.
The report, "Sudan, Oil, and Human Rights," (
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/sudan1103/ - 3Mb PDF file ) investigates the role that oil has played in Sudan's civil war. This 754-page report is the
most comprehensive examination yet published of the links between natural-resource exploitation and human rights abuses. "Oil development in southern Sudan should have been a cause of rejoicing for Sudan's people," said Jemera Rone, Sudan researcher for Human Rights Watch. "Instead,
it has brought them nothing but woe."
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The report provides evidence of the complicity of oil companies in the human rights abuses. Oil company executives turned a blind eye to well-reported government attacks on civilian targets, including aerial bombing of hospitals, churches, relief operations and schools.
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Oil companies operating in Sudan were aware of the killing, bombing, and looting that took place in the south, all in the name of opening up the oilfields," said Rone. "These facts were repeatedly brought to their attention in public and private meetings, but they continued to operate and make a profit as the devastation went on."
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http://hrw.org/english/docs/2003/11/25/sudan6528.htm In this case it is ironically the Asian oil companies (China National Petroleum Corp., Petrolium Nasional Berhad and ONGC Videsh Ltd.) who are very active in the region, however French and American oil companies have joined them in the quest of more oil.
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