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Article: Is the U.S. Selling Southern Sudanese Down the River?
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- Sudan Tribune (Sudan)
- Article date:
- May 27, 2009
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By Roger P. Winter May 26, 2009 -- "Selling " someone "downriver", according to any U.S.-savvy thesaurus, has the clear connotation of "sell-out" and, with reference to the shameful U.S. history of slavery, of angry masters selling uncooperative slaves down the Mississippi River into harsher conditions further south. In the context of Sudan, of course, the great Nile River flows north through Khartoum. Selling the people of Southern Sudan "downriver" thus would clearly connote selling them out to the Khartoum-based National Congress Party cabal (formerly the National Islamic Front) that purports to 'govern' Sudan. Is this the direction in which the U.S. is now headed? ...