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COALITION FOR INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE COALITION FOR I NTERNATIONAL JUSTICE SOIL AND OIL: DIRTY BUSINESS IN SUDAN February 2006 Coalition for International Justice 529 14th Street, N.W. Suite 1187 Washington, D.C., 20045 www.cij.org February 2006 i COALITION FOR INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE COALITION FOR I NTERNATIONAL JUSTICE SOIL AND OIL: DIRTY BUSINESS IN SUDAN February 2006 Coalition for International Justice 529 14th Street, N.W. Suite 1187 Washington, D.C., 20045 www.cij.org February 2006 ii COALITION FOR INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE © 2006 by the Coalition for International Justice. All rights reserved. February 2006 iii COALITION FOR INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CIJ wishes to thank the individuals, Sudanese and not, who graciously contributed assistance and wisdom to the authors of this research. In particular, the authors would like to express special thanks to Evan Raymer and David Baines. 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Bentiu Sarh WESTERN Aweil CENTRAL BAHR AL WARAB AFRICAN GHAZAL Wau JONGOLIJONGLEI REPUBLC Rumbek 20E 25E W LAKES h it e Bor N i le To SUDAN Djema Li Yubu WESTERN EASTERN SELECTED CITIES AND TOWNS 5N EQUATORIA EQUATORIA 5N Yambio Juba Kapoeta Torit STATE (WILAYAH) CAPITALS BAHR AL Yei Kinyeti NATIONAL CAPITAL JEBEL (3187 m) RIVERS Lake To Turkana Isiro MAIN ROADS To RAILROADS Beni STATE (WILAYAH) BOUNDARIES DEM. REP. To Tororo To INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARIES OF CONGO Tororo KENYA 0 100 200 300 Kilometers UGANDA 30E 35E 0 50 100 150 200 Miles 0 February 2006 v COALITION FOR INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION AND METHODOLOGY ................................................... 1 Scope of the Report....................................................................................................... 2 Oil: naming names...................................................................................................... 2 Agriculture: laying out patterns.................................................................................. 2 Contours of existing research: a need for more in-depth scrutiny........................... 3 A look towards the future............................................................................................. 4 2. OIL......................................................................................................... 5 Introduction................................................................................................................... 5 From Chevron to Concorp International ................................................................... 6 Chevron discovers oil ................................................................................................. 6 Civil war resumes and oil development grinds to a halt ............................................ 7 After Chevron’s departure, Khartoum begins to clear the way for oil – with greater violence ....................................................................................................................... 8 Concorp buys out Chevron at a huge discount – but fails to produce oil in significant quantities................................................................................................... 9 SPC and Arakis........................................................................................................... 11 Sudan entrusts its oil future to Canadian oil industry neophytes ............................. 11 Arakis........................................................................................................................... 14 GNPOC ........................................................................................................................ 20 Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company and the Role of China....................... 20 After 20 years, the oil finally begins to flow ............................................................. 20 Security/Military Operations..................................................................................... 22 Oil infrastructure and revenue used for military purposes ...................................... 23 Talisman: taking the human rights heat................................................................... 25 The Sudanese Petroleum Corporation...................................................................... 27 Awad Ahmed al Jaz................................................................................................... 28 Lundin/IPC.................................................................................................................. 30 Renewed fighting erupts between GoS proxies for control over oil Block 5A.......... 30 Lundin’s oil road: paved with controversy............................................................... 31 Petrodar ....................................................................................................................... 33 Prospects for the Future of Oil in Sudan.................................................................. 35 A brief critique of the Wealth-Sharing Agreement ................................................... 35 Wealth Sharing Agreement opens up past, puzzling practices to scrutiny ............... 37 Total/White Nile: The first post-war oil dispute in the making?............................ 37 Darfur Oil: Uncharted oil grounds ........................................................................... 38 Conclusion ................................................................................................................... 41 3. HURTING PEOPLE AND MAKING MONEY IN AGRICULTURE ................ 42 State of Knowledge ..................................................................................................... 43 Mechanized Schemes and Other Aspects of ‘Modern’ Agriculture....................... 46 The Problem.............................................................................................................. 46 Legalizing landgrabs: a case of ‘dar-jacking’ ......................................................... 47 The Nimeiri years and the Breadbasket Strategy ..................................................... 49 Mechanized farming under the NIF: Continuity and Mutation................................ 50 The expansion of mechanized farming...................................................................... 52 February 2006 vi COALITION FOR INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE Consequences of predatory commercial agriculture................................................ 54 Strip farming: destruction of the land .................................................................. 54 Impoverishment. ................................................................................................... 55 Displacement......................................................................................................... 56 Islamization........................................................................................................... 57 Curtailment of pastoral rights ............................................................................... 58 Potential for future abuse in the commercial agriculture sector.............................. 59 More of the same?................................................................................................. 59 Peace is good for tractors...................................................................................... 60 What about Darfur?............................................................................................... 60 Pastoralists and the Livestock Sector........................................................................ 62 Livestock in Sudan: wealth and vulnerability........................................................... 62 A critical livelihood in Sudan. .............................................................................. 62 More than food on the hoof. ................................................................................. 63 Pastoral vulnerability and state abuse................................................................... 63 Erosion of pastoralist land tenure rights.................................................................. 64 Pastoral land tenure in Sudan................................................................................ 64 Legal mechanisms diminish land tenure rights..................................................... 65 Police and courts................................................................................................... 66 Skewed markets......................................................................................................... 67 Overview of the Sudanese livestock market......................................................... 68 The domestic market............................................................................................