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06/10/2005:

"Briton named as buyer of Darfur oil rights"

A millionaire British businessman, Friedhelm Eronat, was named last night as the purchaser of oil rights in the Darfur region of Sudan, where the regime is accused of war crimes and where millions of tribespeople are alleged to have been forced to flee, amid mass rapes or murders.

The disclosure was greeted with outrage by human rights campaigners. "From a moral point of view these people are paying a government whose senior members may end up in front of the international criminal court for war crimes," Simon Taylor, director of Global Witness, said yesterday.
Full: guardian.co.uk
See here's the thing--with one hand the Brits are launching this crudely emotionalist reptilian-brain-
stimulating campaign to 'save' Africa, and with the other the rape continues. 'Save' Africa in British bank accounts, right?