No one mentions the genocide in Sudan. Malaysian mainstream papers do not mention this atrocity perpetrated on the animists, Christians and on the Muslims themselves by the Arab North. Black Muslims, Christians and animists are being massacred .

The death toll so far in Sudan is 2,000,000 by some estimates, mainly as a result of famine induced by the war. Humanitarian organisations estimate that four million Sudanese have been displaced internally or have been forced to leave the country,

Many of the one million civilians affected by the conflict remain beyond the reach of relief workers due to continuing violence.

No one condemns the Sudanese genocide in Malaysia, as it is politically incorrect. Why? Because 'Blood For Oil' Petronas Carigali, our national oil company, is one of the block oil and gas concessions holders in Sudan along with China, Canada, Qatar, Sweden and Austria.

Petronas Carigali Overseas Sudan Berhad , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Petronas Nasional Berhad, the national petroleum corporation of Malaysia, owns a 30 percent share of the Block 5A concession, and a 41 percent share of the Block 5B concession, for which it is co-lead partner.

And guess what ?

This is in southern Sudan where those atrocities are taking place. I believe that we Malaysians shouldn't think about shouting 'No Blood For Oil' in front of the US embassy here, as the Americans would snickering about our self-inflicted hypocrisy. They might not want to laugh too loudly as it would be deemed impolite, and that might entail our foreign minister issuing a protest note.

In Darfur, the residents are mainly Muslim, it has been reported. The attackers are Arabs, who are also Muslim. So it appears that the hatred of the Arab attackers against the black victims is based essentially on racism.

And it appears that the Sudanese government is supporting the Arab attackers, or at least not doing anything to stop it. Sudan also uses rape as a weapon of war .

Amnesty International detailed hundreds of cases of sexual assault on girls as young as eight. Arab gunmen from the Janjaweed militia are blamed for the attacks, involving raids on villages and mass abductions of women and girls as sex slaves.

There's worse.

'While African women in Darfur were being raped by the Janjaweed militiamen, Arab women stood nearby and sang for joy , according to an Amnesty International report published yesterday. The songs of the Hakama, or the 'Janjaweed women' as the refugees call them, encouraged the atrocities committed by the militiamen. The women singers stirred up racial hatred against black civilians during attacks on villages in Darfur and celebrated the humiliation of their enemies, the human rights group said.'

No one talks about this in Malaysia - slavery and quasi-slavery practices around the world. Yet what makes slavery unique in Sudan is that there has been a revival of the practice in the mid-1980s.

The institution was virtually extinct in the 1970s and slave raids were unknown, except in a few remote places. The revival began in 1983, when then president Ja'far Numayri placed himself as the vanguard of the Islamic revolution in Africa.

In the process, Numayri abolished the autonomy of southern Sudan ending over 10 years of peace in the country and imposing a policy of radical Islamisation and Arabisation. These policies generated small-scale armed resistance among southern Sudanese, including black Africans, Christians and other groups who adhered to their traditional religious beliefs.

The government in Khartoum then began to use slave raids and slavery as an instrument of counter-insurgency to break down resistance against its policies. The Numayri government began arming Arab militiamen - known as Janjaweed - and sent them southwards, and allowed them to keep whatever booty they could seize, including women and children as slaves.

Arab raiders even today burn the villages they overpower and usually shoot the men. Forming old-fashioned slave caravans, the remaining women and children are tied to a long rope and dragged by horses. Those unable to keep up are beaten, often to death , while crying children or babies are thrown into the bush to die.

The casualties of war and atrocities in the Middle East are minuscule compared to what the Islamic government of Sudan is perpetrating. Libya, 'this paragon of human rights" is the chair on the UN human rights body. It makes one laugh, when 57 Muslim countries join and support one another without condemning this evil infamy taking place in Sudan.

How on earth was Libya made chair of the UN human rights commission? It is no surprise when the Russian, Chinese, Indian and Malaysian votes were determined by their substantial investments in Sudanese oil.

It appears that the UN does not much care about human life, unless it involves some money making. When will the UN come clean? The ghastly carnage in Sudan goes on and there is no one to speak out for them.