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Sudanese
Muslim militiamen and Somali al-Shabaab terrorists are financing their
jihad from poaching raids against the endangered wildlife of their
mostly Christian neighbors.
The janjaweed poachers use the profits from
massacring the African elephant to continue their massacres against
black African Christians in Darfur. The common link is their utter
disregard for life and for the rule of law.
Cameroon’s Special Forces have been
deployed to foil an imminent raid by Sudanese poachers who for eight
weeks earlier this year slaughtered half the population of elephants for
their ivory at one of the country’s wildlife reserves.
The poachers have been attempting to
take park guards in northern Cameroon by surprise by exploiting greater
ground cover that has sprouted in the rainy season, according to
international conservation body World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), which
said it had been informed by high ranking officials of the Rapid
Intervention Battalion (BIR) on Friday.
“This is the same group of poachers
that in early 2012 travelled more than 1,000km on horseback from
northern Sudan across the Central African Republic and Chad to kill over
300 elephants in the Bouba N’Djida National Park in northern Cameroon,”
WWF said.
The heavily armed and well coordinated
poachers, who had told local villagers of their plans to kill as many
elephants as possible, claimed they had killed as much as 650 out of
some 1,000 that roamed the park.
The elephant population in Cameroon
and in central Africa is estimated to have been halved, mainly by
poachers, between 1995 and 2007 with the number of elephants killed
still on the rise…
A story from the New York Times in
September explained that Sudan’s janjaweed, the Arab Muslim
supremacists who bear responsibility for the genocide against black
Africans in Darfur, are offenders in the illegal ivory trade. Der
Spiegel reports that
janjaweed poachers use the proceeds for arms: “The millions of dollars
their poaching raid must have brought in will allow them to replenish
their weapons stores.” The New York Times also identified al-Shabaab
from Somalia as an ivory poaching participant.
al-Shabaab, the militant Islamist
group that has pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda, recently began training
fighters to infiltrate neighboring Kenya and kill elephants for ivory to
raise money.
One former al-Shabaab associate said
that the Shabaab were promising to “facilitate the marketing” of ivory
and have encouraged villagers along the Kenya-Somalia border to bring
them tusks, which are then shipped out through the port of Kismayo, a
notorious smuggling hub and the last major town the Shaabab still
control.
Sadly, the Islamist culture and
tradition of raiding, pillaging, plundering and exploitation of natural
resources and property is alive and well.
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