It's expensive to wage genocide. Weapons need to be bought, contract killers must be paid. However, for the genocidal regime in Sudan, expense is not a problem. The government controls the country's oil resources, a valuable commodity in the global marketplace. As Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir boasted, "Just when some countries gave us sanctions, God gave us oil."
The regime is further emboldened thanks to the silent complicity of its largest partner in the exploitation of its oil resources,
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