Sudan gets Chinese jets

By Charles Smith

WorldNetDaily has learned that the African nation of Sudan has acquired
34 new jet fighters from China, doubling the size of the country’s air force
and further escalating the Muslim government’s war against Christians in
southern Sudan.

Records show that the Sudan air force is now equipped with $100 million
worth of brand new Shenyang jet fighters built in China. A recent U.N.
report accused the Sudan government of using an airfield built with Chinese
assistance to bomb “schools and hospitals” in its war against Christians.

Chinese-built Shenyang F-7 fighter shown with optional bombs,
missiles and cannon.

Information provided by U.S. military analysts and confirmed by data
published in Aviation Week & Space Technology, shows that Sudan acquired 34
new fighters from China over the last 24 months. The newly acquired Chinese
jet fighters could pose a significant threat to neighboring African states.
The Chinese jets sold to Sudan include a dozen Shenyang F-7 supersonic
fighters, a highly improved version of the famed Russian MiG-21.

According to an article published in Investor’s Business Daily by John
Berlau, entitled, “Chinese Oil Firm Listing on NYSE Faces Fight Due To
Terrorist Links,” China is known to be assisting Sudan for oil. Berlau
reported that the communist-government-owned China National Petroleum
Company, or CNPC, is building an oil pipeline through a war zone inside
Sudan.

“Canada’s Foreign Affairs Ministry recently found that the oil pipeline
that CNPC is building with Sudan’s government and others is ‘exacerbating
the conflict’ that has already killed two million people,” wrote Berlau.
“Not only will the oil revenue go to fuel the war effort, but Sudan’s
government is using the pipeline project’s airstrip for bombing missions.”

Amnesty International reported that to build the oil pipeline for China,
armed guards from the Chinese People’s Liberation Army participated in
displacing the indigenous Sudanese population. Amnesty reports that Chinese
troops have assisted in ethnic cleansing and rape in the southern Sudan.
The addition of jet fighters underscores that Beijing is firmly committed to
providing the Sudanese radical Muslim government with advanced military
support.

A recent report from the U.N. Commission on Human Rights charged the
Sudan government with land mining villages, poisoning wells, bombing schools
and hospitals and sponsoring terrorism in its 16-year civil war against
Christians and other blacks. Human rights organizations also accuse Red
China of actively supporting ethnic cleansing carried out by the Sudanese
National Islamic Front government against Christian minorities in the
impoverished African country.

The Clinton administration so far has refused to react to the transfer of
jet fighters and Chinese military support to the growing war in Sudan.
President Clinton, in a February 2000 letter to Nina Shea, head of Freedom
House’s Center for Religious Freedom, stated that he would not “pursue new
extraterritorial or third country sanctions” against China or Sudan.

“Doing so,” noted Clinton in his letter, “would ultimately prove
counterproductive.”

Former Sudanese slave, Francis Bok, disagrees with President Clinton’s
policy on his homeland. Bok, captured as a child by Sudanese Muslim forces
and sold into slavery, escaped by walking hundreds of miles to Egypt and was
offered international refugee status by the United Nations.

“I am trying hard to free my people in Sudan, but where [is] your
president?” asked Bok in an interview from his office at the American
Anti-Slavery Group.

Former slave Francis Bok

According to the Boston-based American Anti-Slavery Group, slavery is
making a comeback as part of the 13-year-old war in Sudan waged by the
Muslim north against the black Christian and animist south. Arab militias,
armed by the government, have been raiding African villages, shooting the
men and enslaving the women and children. The latter are kept as personal
property or marched north and sold.

Bok stated he was enslaved when he was 7 years old, during a trip to a
local market in Nyamlall to sell his family’s eggs and beans. Sudanese
Muslim militiamen surrounded the market and shot all the adults and
adolescent boys on the spot. Children who were not killed were tied onto
donkeys. Children too small to straddle an animal were tied into baskets
and bound to the beasts.

“The Sudanese Islamic soldiers told me, ‘We see you like animals,'” said
Bok, adding, “I have seen many people killed like animals and many children
sold into slavery.”

Bok said he couldn’t forget the sight of a 12-year-old who had just seen
her parents killed.

“She would not stop crying,” he said. “They took her out of the basket
and shot her; and then her sister, who was about 10, would not stop crying,
and they took her out of the basket and cut off her foot with the sword.”

Bok was taken to a slave market in Kirio, a city in northern Sudan where
hundreds of captives were bound and sold. Instead of being sold, Bok was
given to a brother of the militia leader.

“It was terrible,” Bok sadly recounted. “Most people don’t know what is
going on in Sudan. That is why I am trying to tell the American people
about Sudan, about my life as a slave. I saw people shot, killed, children
who cried had their hands or legs chopped off as an example to the others. I
was born a Christian. When I was enslaved I was forced to become a Muslim.”

Despite denials by the Sudan government, Bok’s story is underlined by the
documented purchase of Sudanese slaves by an independent Western source. In
March 1998, John Eibner of Christian Solidarity International, paid
thousands of dollars in cash to an Arab middleman and secured the release of
nearly a hundred young boys enslaved by the Sudanese military.

John Eibner hands an Arab middleman thousands of dollars in cash to
free Sudanese slaves.

The Arab middleman reportedly bought the slaves in northern Sudan from
Muslim militias and secretly brought them to Eibner for emancipation. The


American Anti-Slavery Group
provided WorldNetDaily with photos of enslaved children being freed.

“We don’t hear the voice of President Clinton,” concluded Bok. “The president is silent about slaves like me in Sudan, silent about the war and the many deaths. What is he going to do about it?”

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Charles Smith

Charles R. Smith is a noted investigative journalist. For over 20 years, Smith has covered areas of national security and information warfare. He frequently appears on national television for the Fox network and is a popular guest on radio shows all over America. Read more of Charles Smith's articles here.