Imagine that.

I imagine that the enslavement and genocide committed against the South Sudanese is still the larger issue. Maybe that's just me, but human rights trump oil.
 
I imagine that the enslavement and genocide committed against the South Sudanese is still the larger issue. Maybe that's just me, but human rights trump oil.

I'm sure that's contributing to the fighting spirit, but the specific fighting is over an oil field on the disputed boundary. Naturally. And of COURSE human rights trump oil, but oil--or other wealth--is concrete and can provide the spark that takes a lingering resentment and hatred to a full on military confrontation.
 
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