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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Battle of Oil in Sudan

More than a thousand soldiers killed southern Sudanese from Khartoum in the battle for oil in Sudan concern to the community 'International. U.S. President Obama called for the immediate cessation of hostilities, while the president of Sudan, Bashir, closes the door to any negotiations with Juba. The field of battle 'to Heglig, oil-rich area of ​​Sudan in South Kordofan assigned last year in Khartoum, with a highly disputed decision by the southern Sudanese leaders. South Sudan occupied the oil field on April 10, in a move that coincided with waves of air strikes against its territory. Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, on Monday visited the disputed area Heglig and said he will not negotiate with the Government of Southern Sudan, despite international pressure to cease hostilities between the two countries. The visit to this oil-rich and the refusal to the resumption of dialogue coincided with accusations of further attacks on their territory, a step in the escalating war between Yuba and Khartoum after weeks of conflict. the commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces in Heglig, General Maruf Kamal Abdel, said today that his troops killed 938 Southern soldiers and captured a large number of leaders of the army during the offensive.

French presidential election 2012


The socialist Francois Hollande, who won the first round of French presidential election, and President Nicolas Sarkozy, who finished second, the winks Monday multiplied the right-wing voters, key in the second round on May 6. Hollande Sunday was 28.63% of the vote, Sarkozy a 27.18% and Marine Le Pen, the far-right National Front (FN), 17.9%, a record for this match. The abstention rate was 20.53%. In his first rally after the first round, Sarkozy showed Monday conciliatory to the voters of Marine Le Pen, saying that "we have heard. How we will respond with precise commitments." Returning to the attacks of Marine Le Pen against globalization, Sarkozy called the French "do not want borders that let all" or "want me to remove their lifestyle." "We want a Europe that protects us, not a Europe that crush us," he added. Hollande, the favorite for the second round according to polls, and gained the support of radical leftist candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon (11.1%) and the environmentalist Eva Joly (2.31%). Surveys carried out on Sunday night show that about two thirds of Le Pen voters are willing to vote for Sarkozy, who need a "transfer (of votes) of 80%," according to analyst Pascal Perrineau.

Obama declares war


In the Holocaust Museum in Washington, accepting that the U.S. has "a moral responsibility to prevent further exterminations", Barack Obama has announced economic sanctions and other punitive measures against governments, particularly Syria and Iran, using modern technologies communication as an instrument for the suppression of their own people. "These technologies exist to empower citizens, not to increase the ability to repress them," said U.S. President, Nobel Peace Prize in an attempt to strengthen the role his country could play in the world, from Africa to the Middle East, to avoid persecution massive and the most outrageous human rights abuses. It is not only to use military resources - "neither can nor should do," said Obama-but the U.S. has a wide range of financial means, political and diplomatic than it can take more forceful hand to prevent , as stated by the president, "National sovereignty is a license to massacre the people itself."  The new communication technologies, social networks like Facebook and Twitter, and the range of options offered by the latest generation of smart phones have been revealed in recent years as strong allies of oppressed societies who struggle for freedom. This was demonstrated, for example, during the recent Spring Arabic. But the governments of repressive countries resorted to various means to locate those opponents, suppress protests and make more effective their repressive systems. Obama has announced a series of measures, albeit timid and essentially testimonial, try to face this new reality. An executive order today sent to Congress anticipates sanctions against the intelligence services of Syria and Iran, and against telecommunications companies and Datak Syriatel Telecom, which act, respectively, in both countries. These sanctions will affect people individually identified and may be extended to other countries which qualify for the same practice. The use of technology to use repressive means from now in the U.S. as an attack on human rights deserves to be specifically punished.