Talisman Energy's work in the Sudan has assisted genocide and disgraced our nation.

0 Comments | Alberta Report, January, 2000 | by MIDDLETON, MEL

For decades the people of the southern Sudan, most of whom are Christian, have suffered unimaginable horrors perpetrated by an extremist Muslim regime in the north: slavery, aerial bombardment, starvation, war, displacement and, according to a growing number of human rights groups, what can only be described as genocide. Well that's terrible, you might think, but it's not our affair. But it is our affair. A Calgary company, Talisman Energy Inc., is right smack in the middle of it, and making a horrific situation worse.

Since the northern Sudanese regime, the National Islamic Front (NIF), usurped power in a military coup in 1989, the abuses have spiralled. Thousands have been forced from their lands to make room for oil companies like Talisman. Civil war and...