IV
107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. CON. RES. 113
Regarding human rights violations and oil development in Sudan.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL 26, 2001
Mr. PAYNE submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred
to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Com-
mittee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined
by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall
within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Regarding human rights violations and oil development in
Sudan.
Whereas in 1999 Sudan began to export oil; the National Is-
lamic Front (NIF) government earns an estimated
$500,000,000 each year from oil revenues or ‘‘blood oil’’;
Whereas this regime is using these revenues to expand its
purchase 
of 
deadly 
weapons, 
including 
helicopter
gunships, tanks, and heavy artillery, with the goal of re-
alizing its military objectives in south Sudan;
Whereas military expenditures by the NIF government have
doubled in the last two years; as a consequence, this re-
gime is building an arms industry to bolster its military
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strength in order to defeat the Sudan People’s Liberation
Army (SPLA);
Whereas the increase in aerial bombardment and deployment
of deadly new helicopter gunships in south Sudan is di-
rectly linked to oil revenues; according to the United
States Committee for Refugees (USCR), the NIF govern-
ment bombed 152 civilian targets in 2000 and the bomb-
ings continue in 2001;
Whereas oil development and extraction has displaced count-
less civilians from their homes and villages; according to
a report by Christian Aid, 55,000 civilians have been dis-
placed and 48 villages have been burned in the 12-month
period ending in March, 2001;
Whereas the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Corporation
(Talisman Energy, China National Petroleum Corpora-
tion, and Petronas of Malaysia) has extended its oper-
ations westward into Concession Block 4, Lundin Oil is
now operating, along with passive investor OMV of Aus-
tria, in Concession Block 5a, south of Bentiu, and
TotalFinaElf of France appears poised to enter its im-
mense concession areas south and east of Bentiu;
Whereas increased investment by Western and Asian compa-
nies in Sudan’s oil sector will further diminish NIF’s
willingness to negotiate a just peace, and increased oil
revenues will also make possible the larger destructive-
ness of the regime’s war effort;
Whereas the United States Government cannot ignore or look
with indifference on the destructive role of oil develop-
ment in Sudan; presently Talisman Energy of Canada,
PetroChina of China (a subsidiary virtually wholly owned
and fully governed by China National Petroleum Cor-
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peace agreement in Sudan is reached, until the aer-
ial bombardment of civilian targets in Sudan is halt-
ed, until the slave raids in Sudan are halted and a
family reunification program is put in place, until all
political prisoners in Sudan are released, and the
emergency decrees, which were imposed in December
1999 by the NIF government, are suspended;
(4) calls on the international community to boy-
cott oil from Sudan and the foreign companies in-
volved in the production of oil in, and the export of
oil from, Sudan;
(5) strongly urges companies contemplating an
entrance into Sudan’s oil sector not to do so until
a just peace in Sudan is secured;
(6) urges United States companies and individ-
uals in the United States who may have indirectly
invested in companies involved in oil development in
Sudan to divest their holdings; and
(7) calls on the President to investigate possible
violations of Executive Order 13067 by PetroChina
in its Initial Public Offering on the New York Stock
Exchange in April 2000.
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