LaRouches Hold Discussions in Sudan
Schiller Delegation, Dec. 1994

Lyndon and Helga LaRouche visited the embattled sub-Saharan nation of Sudan during the week of December 17-23, 1994 as guests of the government, holding many meetings with ministers of government, including President Lieutenant-General Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, and with the religious leader Dr. Hassan Abdullah al-Turabi.

Mr. LaRouche identified the significance of the trip in two ways:

"First of all, President Clinton and his close advisers are attempting to prevent a crowd in London from, among other things, getting a general war going against Islam; and therefore, I was very happy to visit our friends in Sudan, with the thought that the facts I would be able to develop in my own way, would be helpful to furthering that process of seeking peace and stability around the world, in what the President's trying to do, as I see it."

Second, as Mr. LaRouche put it, "Today there are many people, especially in London, who are trying to influence certain people around our State Department, or Frank Wolf, the Congressman from Northern Virginia, into getting the United States into a fuss with Sudan."

"Well, there are two countries in Africa--Nigeria and Sudan--both presently slated for destruction by London. If those two countries or either one of them goes, all sub-Saharan Africa, Black Africa, goes into the pit irreparably. That has strategic implications which can affect the life and welfare of everybody on this planet, including some people in the United States who don't realize how important Africa is to them."

The LaRouche's trip was a newsmaker in Sudan. Mr. LaRouche reported, "I met with many ministers of government. We had about three or four meetings a day of that sort, which were featured on television. At the beginning of each meeting, they had the TV camera there, and I would appear on the nightly TV, and so forth."

"I met also, of course, with the religious leader Dr. Hassan Abdullah al-Turabi. I had one meeting with him and another chance to run into him at an evening reception, which went on for some time, where we had some discussion there with others."

LaRouche and his wife stayed in Khartoum throughout their week's visit. LaRouche also addressed scholars and government officials at the university there.