WHAT IS MASS MURDER IF YOU'RE AN EX-PRESIDENT? Wayne Madsen While CIA agents and US Special Forces are on the hunt for Al Qaeda cells throughout East Africa, a company on whose International Advisory Board sits George H. W. Bush ("41," sire of "43") is applying a full court press on human rights workers and opposition politicians in Tanzania. In 1996, Tanzanian troops allegedly buried alive some gold miners at Bulyanhulu mine in northwestern Tanzania. The miners were originally invited by the government to mine gold in the region, but in 1996, the government in Dar es Salaam reversed course and granted the Kahama Mining Corporation, an affiliate of Sutton Resources Ltd. of Canada, a permit to mine the gold in Bulyanhulu. Sutton was later acquired by Barrick Gold, another Canadian firm on whose board Bush pere sits along with former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and former Clinton First Friend Vernon Jordan. When the Tanzanian independent gold miners refused to comply with a government order to vacate the mine for Sutton, they were said by Tanzanian witnesses to have been buried alive by bulldozers belonging to the mining company. Recent reports and revelations concerning the role of Sutton cum Barrick in the massacre have resulted in a law suit against Britain's Observer newspaper and a decision by Amnesty International to delete references to the massacre in its annual report on human rights. Now, Barrick, in cooperation with the Tanzanian government, is putting the screws to those brave Tanzanians who have dared challenge the official record on what happened at Bulyanhulu. Last month, Tanzanian police arrested Augustine Mrema, the leader of the opposition Tanzania Labor Party, and Rugemeleza Nshala, the head of Lawyers for Environmental Action in Tanzania (LEAT). Tanzania also issued an arrest warrant for Tundu Lissu, a Washington, DC-based human rights lawyer who has documented witness accounts of the 1996 mass murder. Tanzanian police searched the offices of LEAT, reportedly looking for a videotape that displays the charred remains of the bodies of victims, said to have been burnt by the military after they were exhumed from the buried mine. The opposition politicians and human rights workers have refused to turn the tape over to the Tanzanian government wanting to instead get it into the hands of an independent international investigation team. So the deal post September 11 is that if your last name is Bin Laden, Omar, or al-Zahrawi and you killed innocent people, you will have a world coalition hot on your heels. However, if your last name is Bush, Mulroney, or Jordan and it just so happens that another Bush sits in the White House and you sit on an international board of a company accused of covering up genocide, you will get a free pass and a pat on the back. Welcome to the Bush New World Order. God help us all. http://www.spiescafe.com/wm/wayne.htm search also for greg palast's gutsy attack on corporate criminals,Barrick.