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Sudan Briefing Book LaRouche in Rome Continued from page 76 participated in the February delegation, and two members of the September del- egation, James Mann, former Congress- man from , and Alabama State Rep. Thomas E. Jackson. Freeman pointed out that the lies against Sudan in the media about slav- ery, harboring of terrorists, and persecu- tion of Christians and other non-Mus- EIRNS/Andrew Spannaus lim populations, have been spread by an organization called Christian Solidarity International (C.S.I.), which is directed ‘Overcoming Financial Collapse’ by the Deputy Speaker of the British House of Lords, Baroness Caroline Cox. n April 10, Lyndon LaRouche tive financial markets, and launch the Senator Theo Mitchell charged that Oaddressed a packed conference in large-scale infrastructure and industrial Sudan was being “put to the sword” by Rome, Italy, on “The way out of the dis- projects which are needed to save the powerful interests. The Schiller delega- integration of the international financial physical economy from ruin. tion had found “no institutionalized, markets.” LaRouche told the one hun- Helga Zepp LaRouche presented the government-backed slavery”; in fact, he dred guests representing political, indus- economic perspective of the Eurasian said, slavery in Sudan is a capital trial, diplomatic, and clerical circles Land-Bridge, or “new Silk Road.” offense. Rather, he asserted, Sudan has from Rome and elsewhere in Italy, “It is Engineer Fortunato Covelli, a repre- been victimized by an invasion from beyond the power and will of man to sentative of the company established to Ethiopia and Eritrea, which began on save this monetary and financial sys- build the bridge over the Strait of Messi- Jan. 12. tem,” and said his job is to organize the na, which would connect Sicily to Italy’s governments of the world, led by Presi- mainland, briefly addressed the confer- Slavery Story Wreaked Havoc dent Bill Clinton, to convene a New ence, as did Alberto Servidio, former Former Congressman James Mann Bretton Woods conference. head of the Cassa del Mezzogiorno, the excoriated the two Baltimore Sun Joining LaRouche on the podium state financial institute for the develop- reporters whose slavery story “wreaked was Italian Parliamentarian Publio ment of Southern Italy, and economics havoc in the world, in Sudan, in the Fiori, the former Transportation Minis- reporter Giorgio Vitangeli. In addition, Congressional Black Caucus, resulting ter in the government of Silvio Berlus- messages of support for the conference in the approval of sanctions by the Unit- coni, and currently national coordinator were received from Flaminio Piccoli, ed States and the United Nations.” of the National Alliance Party. Fiori former president of the Christian Representative Thomas Jackson of endorsed LaRouche’s New Bretton Democracy Party; Roberto Formigoni, Alabama admitted that, before his visit Woods proposal, and called for the parliamentarian and currently president to Sudan last September, he had known establishment in Italy of a National of the Lombardy Region; and Siro Lom- nothing about the country except what Bank for economic development, which bardini, former Minister of State Eco- he read in the papers. “My fore-parents would break the control of the specula- nomic Participation. had to endure the atrocity of slavery. . . . I was troubled.” But his experience in Sudan convinced him that charges of slavery there were fraudulent. LaRouche Democrat María Elena Milton showed how those charges are used to “whip up” African-Americans, while American conservatives are fed a line about Islamic persecution. “How do you mobilize American conservatives?” she asked. “Whip them up with charges of Islamic oppression of Christians—fed through C.S.I., and the

Christian Coalition. ... Pat Robertson EIRNS/Andrew Spannaus is raising a lot of money using this Above: (left to right) Translator, Lyndon LaRouche, moderator Paolo Raimondi, and issue.” Parliamentarian Publio Fiori. Below: Conference guests.

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© 1997 , Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Left: Helga Zepp LaRouche. cover the passion to do what is neces- Below: Conference particpants. sary, to save all humanity.” Former Ugandan President Godfrey LaRouche said. The nation- Binaisa appealed to Africa to resist the state is being destroyed, phony “new Hitlers” of the continent. What food shortages are being engi- must be revived, said Binaisa, who was neered, parts of Africa are a leading figure in the Ugandan inde- being turned into a terra pendence movement, is Pope Paul VI’s incognita. This is a warning 1968 concept of “peace through devel- sign of what will happen to opment.” the entire planet, if the policy The concept of peace through devel-

EIRNS/Christopher Lewis direction is not changed. The opment was also taken up by the secre- tary general of the Burundi National Council for the Defense of Democracy Peace Through Development in (CNDD), who traced his organization’s history from the founding of the Frode- bu party for democracy in Burundi. Africa’s Great Lakes Region Peace through development, he said, is

alluf, a small town on the Rhine WRiver in Germany, was host to a seminar on April 26-27 that brought together leaders of East Africa in a strat- egy session organized by the Schiller Institute, the Forum for Peace and Democracy, and Executive Intelligence Review magazine. Leading speakers at the event were Lyndon LaRouche and his wife, Helga Zepp LaRouche; Godfrey Binaisa, for- mer Ugandan President and founder of the African Civil Rights Movement; William Munyembabaz, secretary gen- eral of the National Council for the

Defense of Democracy of Burundi; EIRNS/Christopher Lewis François Nzabahimana, president of the Rally for the Return of Refugees and hope of reversing this process lies in the the only strategy for Africa. He Democracy to Rwanda (RDR); and Eurasian Land-Bridge, which would debunked the ethnic myth of Tutsi ver- Nkiko Nsengimana of Rwanda Pour extend into Africa. sus Hutu, describing the collaboration of Tous (Rwanda For All). Also attending LaRouche asked, “Where will we both during the short reign of democracy were leading opposition activists from find the passion” to bring about these in the country in the period of the Frode- Uganda and Zaire. changes? The horrors now going on in bu government (June-October 1993). For the Africans assembled at the Africa can be a key part in compelling François Nzabahimana, president of seminar, the tragedy unfolding in Central world leaders to solve the crisis. What is the RDR, gave detailed evidence on how Africa has robbed them of their nations happening in Africa must arouse the the United Nations High Commission and their families. The question posed conscience of nations. We must use our on Refugees was complicit in the geno- was how to stop the current genocide pol- very own weakness, as a force to move cide, and documented how eastern Zaire icy of the British Empire in Africa, and the powers. “We say, if you allow this to was invaded, beginning in October 1996, bring about its true independence. happen in Africa, you have lost the by the combined militaries of Uganda, The global strategic perspective was moral fitness to survive. Mankind is Rwanda, and Burundi. put forward by Lyndon LaRouche, often pushed by calamities, to act. Oth- At its end, the seminar’s participants who asked the participants to “climb erwise the universe acts, to purge itself designating an organizing committee, the mountaintop” and see their situa- of the disease that civilization has and affirmed their commitment to the tion in Africa globally, and from the become. This is the time to act. We must concept that Africa’s true development standpoint of the last five hundred see what is required from the mountain- is the only pathway to peace, and to years of world history. top, and use our knowledge of the very broadening this new seed-crystal of “We are heading into a Dark Age,” horror, as a lever to force people to dis- African leadership.

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