Darfur and China

Dear Mr Benn

China obtains 10 per cent of its oil from Sudan. China will want and need very much more oil from Sudan in the future. China will eventually need to annex Sudan and take all of her oil. In order to accomplish this necessity for China, the native population of Sudan must be drastically reduced or even exterminated. It would be unwise for China to send in its Red Army to do the job and that will be quite unnecessary because modern warfare can be so subtle.

Stir up trouble and strife between potential enemies living at peace, provide them with modern weapons and incite them to destroy each other. Genocide on a massive scale can be engineered, without seeming to be responsible.

You can see the truth of that if you notice your own reaction to this letter, which will be to say “Rubbish. This guy Hamlyn is mad. We know what is happening we are there and see it. Hamlyn has never even been to Sudan”. But nor have the boys in Beijing who are masterminding the acquisition of Sudans oil.

Where the problem gets really tricky is where and when we decide to stop the killing. The ideal is to use existing dynamics to work in a better direction.

China wants to catch up with the West and join in the rat race. She knows full well that her people can run the rat race to win and beat us hands down. It would be a piece of cake for the Chinese to win our rat race when they get into gear.

But of course they will be on a suicide mission as they hot up the planet and make life impossible.

The wise amongst us would set them a different example. The wise would say that the rat race is far from being the best we can do. Commercial warfare is merely a sophisticated form of savagery. Polished barbarism. We have gone so far down that road of mechanistic materialism, that we have lost sight of the fact that the senior pleasure to which every human being in the world may aspire, is to successfully help another. We all like to be right and there is nothing at all which is more right than pleasure as opposed to pain. Focus our sights and get the real target in the cross wires and we are into a totally new global ball game. Happiness of the human race is far more important than oil.

Doctor Edward C Hamlyn MBChB

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