Oil, African Genocide and the USA’s LRA Excuse

President Obama seemed either unaware or unconcerned about the UN Mapping Report, released on October 1st, which documents Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s army’s war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocidal massacres of civilians, Rwandan Hutu refugees and Congolese Hutus, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

[Global: Africa]

On Wednesday, November 24th, President Obama sent his plan to mobilize Uganda’s army, the Uganda People’s Defense Force, to cross its northern border into the Central African Republic and Southern Sudan, to disarm the Lord’s Resistance Army, a militia that has been fighting the Ugandan government for over 20 years. The White House issued a statement saying:

“The development of the strategy, relied on the significant involvement of the Department of State, the Department of Defense, the US Agency for International Development and the Intelligence Community.”   –White House “Strategy to Support the Disarmament of the Lord’s Resistance Army,” posted to the website of the Pulitzer Center

The President seemed either unaware or unconcerned about the UN Mapping Report, released on October 1st, which documents Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s army’s war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocidal massacres of civilians, Rwandan Hutu refugees and Congolese Hutus, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

How else could he propose to mobilize the very same army to enter the Central African Republic and Southern Sudan to protect civilians and refugees, and “meet humanitarian requirements” in “affected populations,” as his strategy statement said he would?

Just over a week later, on Friday, December 3rd, NBC News Dateline aired “Winds of War, George Clooney in Sudan,” which warned that the Northern Sudanese Moslem regime of Omar al-Bashir might commit genocide in Christian Southern Sudan.  The next day I called Black Star News Editor Milton Allimadi from the KPFA Radio studios, in Berkeley, California, to produce this segment for the KPFA Weekend News:

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