SOLIDARITY WITH SUDAN ycl-ljc canada

SOLIDARITY WITH SUDAN

With the kidnapping of a Canadian nurse in Sudan, and the news that an
"International court has issued an arrest warrant for the president of
Sudan," the fact that Canada has been quietly increasing its military
role in Sudan with Operation Safarri and Operation Saturn, has come
into public scrutiny. There has also been a supposed solidarity
campaign with Darfur, incorporating many honest and good activists but
being led by anti-Palestinian and pro-Zionist students who have
advocated for an "Afghanistan-style military intervention" into Sudan.

Canada's Talisman Oil has significant investments in Sudan.

This comes just months after one a horrifying scandal around one of
Canada's last significant 'Peacekeeping' operations in north-eastern
Africa was again slipped under the carpet by the military.

In September chargers were dropped against a former Canadian soldier
who was accused of helping beat, burn and suffocate to death a sixteen
year-old Somali teen, Shidane Abukar Arone. (Other soldiers later
posed and snapped photos with Arone's bludgeoned and limp body). The
charges were officially dropped because the soldier had a permanent
brain injury -- inflicted days after the crime when he attempted to
hang himself.

We re-print here the statement of the World Federation of Democratic
Youth on Sudan.

WFDY ON SUDAN

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant
against the Sudanese President for conviction in mass murder in Darfur
region. As other international organizations manipulated by the
imperialist powers, WFDY considers the ICC decision a political
decision and another form of intervention in the internal issues of
independent countries to cause more instability and to divide them in
order to conquer them.

WFDY asserts its condemnation of those provocative decisions that will
only lead to more wars and instabilities in the region.

WFDY also stresses the fact that it supports the democratic rights of
the Sudanese people, the rights of the inhabitants in Darfur in a
stable and better life and the rights of the residents of Southern
Sudan in stability and progress. WFDY also supports the democratic
forces struggling for the rights of the Sudanese people in democracy
and social transformation.

However, all forms of international intervention in internal issues of
sovereign countries like Sudan will only lead to more problems and
tensions. Those policies form the legal cover for the domination and
hegemony of USA and its imperialist allies over the world resources
and sources of energy. The problems in Darfur and Sudan only rose
after the discovery of oil, gas and uranium in its lands; therefore we
understand those interventions as preliminaries for more exploitation
of the resources of this country by the imperialist powers lead by
USA.

WFDY expresses its solidarity with the Sudanese people against
imperialist plans in their country, and with their right in
independent progressive state that controls its resources for the well
being of its people.