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English edition -2nd quarter 1998
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Government of Sudan has hired 2,000 Chinese mercenaries
| The [National] Islamic Front government has hired 2,000 convicted murderers
for 1,000dollars a head from the People’s [Republic]of China to fight alongside
its forces. The Chinese were hired to protect the oil well in the South
and the West of Sudan. One thousand-two hundred of them have already arrived.
The London-based ‘Al-Fajr’ has quoted Mr Mubarak al-Mahdi, the secretary-general of the National Democratic Alliance as saving : We condemn this criminal act of the government of the [word indistinct] Islamic Front, which has reached [word indistinct] of bankruptcy and military defeats to hire foreign mercenaries to fight for it in its war against the Sudanese people. Mr Mubarak al-Mahdi called on the Chinese government to stop intervening in Sudan’s internal affairs. |
| Source: Voice of Sudan, Voice of the National Democratic Alliance in
Arabic, 3 Jun. 98
BBC (Summary of world broadcasts), ME/3256, 18 Jun. 98 |
| Comments by ’Vigilance Soudan’
We are just conveying an information for which we could not find yet a confirmation. It is true indeed that many Chinese are constructing a pipe line supposed to bring oil from South-West Sudan wells to a refinery planned to be located in Khartoum North industrial area. These teams will have to work under constant pressure from the Southern guerilla and China, on top of the armed protection expected from the Sudanese government might wish to add one of its own. The balance of the information looks highly incredible. |