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Press Release

For Immediate Release

New York - February 25, 2002, human rights attorneys Carey R. D'Avino and

Stephen A. Whinston of Berger & Montague, PC, announced the filing of an

amended complaint in the United States District Court for the Southern

District of New York against Talisman Energy Inc., adding the Islamic

Government of Sudan as a co-defendant. The complaint alleges that Talisman

and the government are violating the human rights of Christian and other

non-Muslim minorities in Southern Sudan by conducting a deliberate campaign

of ethnic cleansing to clear the land for oil exploitation.

"Talisman Energy finances and directs the Government of Sudan's ethnic

cleansing campaign and must be stopped before all of our villages are

destroyed and all of the people are killed," charges Taban Deng, the former

Governor of Unity State in Southern Sudan, who is advising plaintiffs'

counsel.

More than 25,000 Christian and other non-Muslim Sudanese refugees now live in

the United States. "We are demanding justice for the non-Muslim people of

Southern Sudan," explains Dak Thong, President of the Nuer Community

Development Services in USA, one of the lead plaintiffs.

In 1997 Sudan was classified by the US Government as a state sponsor of

international terrorism. On October 31, 2001, President Bush extended

sanctions against Sudan declaring "the actions and policies of the Government

of Sudan continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national

security and foreign policy of the US." The United States State Department

announced on February 21, 2002 that it was suspending its efforts to mediate

peace in Sudan because of the Geovernment of Sudan's recent helicopter

gunship attack on a United Nations food distribution center which killed 26

civilians, most of them women and children.

The complaint alleges that Talisman and the Government of Sudan are deploying

military force against the non-Muslim civilian population in aneffort to

create a "cordon sanitare" around the oil concessions.

The complaint seeks damages and injunctive relief on behalf of all non-Muslim

Sudanese refugees and internally displaced persons.

Contact: Carey R. D'Avino (212) 278-1382

Stephen A. Whinston (215) 875-3097