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| News: US presidential candidates united in support of Darfur | | 2008-05-28 19:37:58 | | There don't seem to be many issues that the US presidential candidates Clinton, Obama and McCain agree upon, but one which caught my eye: their stand against Sudan and the genocide in Darfur.Extract from their statement:After more than five years of genocide, the Sudanese government and its proxies continue to commit atrocities against civilians in Darfur. This is unacceptable to the American people and to the world community.We deplore all violence against the people of Darfur. There can be no doubt that the Sudanese government is chiefly responsible for the violence and is able to end it. We condemn the Sudanese government’s consistent efforts to undermine peace and security, including its repeated attacks against its own people and the multiple barriers it has put up to the swift and effective deployment of the United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force. We further condemn the Sudanese government’s refusal to adhere to the terms of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) th | | By: The Road to the Horizon | | |
| | Darfur, Tibet e Birmania sono uniti nella tragedia dalla Cina | | 2008-05-15 02:25:30 | | E' difficile a volte parlare di diritti umani calpestati, si ha sempre il dubbio di scordarsi di qualche cosa o di qualcuno, che magari soffre della sua condizione più di altri.Sono però talmente tanti i soprusi al mondo che è difficile abbracciarli tutti.A volte però , a ben analizzare, si scopre che , oltre alla sofferenza, c'è qualche cosa che unisce fra di loro paesi e regioni talmente distanti, non solo geograficamente.Eppure esiste un denominatore comune che unisce la tragedia del Darfur a quella del Myanmar o del Tibet..E' una linea sottile, un filo invisibile, che conduce però sempre là, in estremo Oriente, e sempre in Cina, dove finalmente si appuntano gli occhi del mondo, quando seguono, trepidanti, quella fiamma olimpica che è oramai la bandiera del Tibet.Quella fiamma non porta idealmente con sé solo le speranze del Tibet, potrebbe tranquillamente portare anche le speranze del Darfur e del Myanmar, potrebbe rappresentarle ed unirle tutte.Non è un segreto per nes | | By: Azzurro | | |
| | Artist: “Louis Vuitton is trying to stop my Darfur campaign!” | | 2008-05-07 23:58:12 | | Artistic expression, social responsibility, and corporate property rights hardly ever (IF ever) mix. More often than not, the entity with the biggest money bag wins. A story has been slowly snowballing for the past couple weeks: Last October, Danish artist Nadia Plesner started an image-driven campaign called “Simple Living” to help raise public support for [...]
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| The only way to alter China's hand in Darfur | | 2008-05-04 14:29:00 | | Rather than attempts at embarrassment, sanctions, threats, or a serious military intervention that China would interpret as a challenge to its control of the oil fields, the focus should be on tying diplomatic and economic efforts together coherently, to enlist China constructively.This can be done – because it has been done, in dealing with North Korea's nuclear ambitions. In 2006 the US pushed to get expanded voting rights for China in the International Monetary Fund, to reflect its weight in the world economy. The quid pro quo Treasury Secretary Paulson promoted was a "hope," as he gently put it, that more power in the IMF would motivate China to allow its artificially low currency to float to a market exchange rate (helping US and EU exports).China's currency started to float. What wasn't mentioned publicly was that the offer of more IMF voting shares was also used to help get Beijing's aid in squeezing North Korea, by reducing its financial assistance to Pyongyang. And it worked | | By: THE NEW BABYLON TIMES | | |
| | Picture of the day: Drawing from Darfur. | | 2008-04-28 14:43:56 | | This picture was drawn by a young Chadian boy in a camp for displaced persons in Eastern Chad. His drawing describes the attack on his village by Janjaweed militias from Sudan. On the top left hand corner of the drawing is written ‘ataque village’ (French for ‘attack of the village’). The attackers, wearing military uniforms and on camels are shooting civilians with machine guns and burning their houses. Bullets are coming from all over. Next to each civilian that is shot is the word ‘Morts’ which is the plural of ‘dead’ in French.More posts on The Road about DarfurPicture courtesy wagingpeace.info
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| | News: Louis Vuitton Sues Darfur Fundraiser | | 2008-04-26 07:46:33 | | The Paris based fashion house Louis Vuitton has filed charges against Nadia Plesner, a Dutch 26 year old student artist for selling posters and t-shirts of a Darfur victim, holding a designer bag inspired by a Louis Vuitton design. All of the profits were going to charity.Nadia said: “I started this campaign because of the distorted way the media prioritizes between big and small world news. How can Paris Hilton make more front covers than the genocide in Darfur? So, I “pimped” a victim, to see if it worked. And it did!”Louis Vuitton now demands $7,500 (5,000 Euro) for each day she continues to sell Simple Life products, $7,500 for each day their letter is published on the website and $7,500 a day for using the name “Louis Vuitton” on her website. In addition they want her to pay their lawyer costs and $15,000 to cover other expenses they have incurred in protecting their ‘intellectual property’. (Full)More posts on The Road about Darfur.Source: Torrent FreakPicture cou | | By: The Road to the Horizon | | |
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| DARFUR NOW COLLEGE TOUR ANNOUNCES THE FIRST 9 CAMPUSES | | 2008-04-23 20:55:29 | | DARFUR NOW COLLEGE TOUR ANNOUNCES THE FIRST 9 CAMPUSES
STAND and the Genocide Intervention Network are proud to partner with Participant Media in the college tour of the acclaimed documentary, Darfur Now...
and performances by musical acts Cool Kids, Goapele, Zion 1, Janelle Monae, Anthony David, Wale, Asheru, DJ Drama and more..... | | By: MVRemix Urban | | |
| | News: Sudan - From the 1994 famine to five years of Darfur. What is the solution? | | 2008-04-19 06:07:49 | | This photo by Kevin Carter won the “Pulitzer Prize” in 1994 and became a symbol of the Sudan famine at the time. The picture depicts stricken girl crawling towards an United Nations camp, located a kilometer away. The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat her.This picture shocked the whole world. No one -including the photographer- knows what happened to the child.Here is the story behind the picture: In 1993 Carter headed north of the border with [his colleague] Silva to photograph the rebel movement in famine-stricken Sudan. To make the trip, Carter had taken a leave from the Weekly Mail and borrowed money for the air fare. Immediately after their plane ) touched down in the village of Ayod, Carter began snapping photos of famine victims. Seeking relief from the sight of masses of people starving to death, he wandered into the open bush. He heard a soft, high-pitched whimpering and saw a tiny girl trying to make her way to the feeding center. As he crouched t | | By: The Road to the Horizon | | |
| | News: Darfur peacekeepers: UN-armed or unarmed? | | 2008-04-18 05:41:56 | | On April 9th, gunmen have attacked a UNAMID (UN African Mission in Darfur) police patrol, two kilometres (one mile) from the Zam Zam camp for internally displaced persons.The officers were ordered out of their vehicles and the four gunmen stole their personal belongings and official identity cards. One officer was repeatedly hit in the neck by the back of an AK-47 when he hesitated in obeying instructions to get back into the vehicle."UNAMID police do not carry weapons and Wednesday's patrol was operating without protection", according to Noureddine Mezni, the UN African Mission spokesman. He added that "this was for confidence-building purposes and for easier contact with the civilians they aim to protect". (Full)More posts on The Road, about Darfur and Sudan.Picture courtesy Reuters
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| | | Darfur: US Wants 3,600 New Troops | | 2008-04-03 12:51:00 | | Time -- Ambassador Richard Williamson, the U.S. special envoy to Sudan, told Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the letter that additional troops are the best hope of increasing security in the Sudanese region.A joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force took over in January from a beleaguered AU force to try to stem the violence. But it only has about 9,000 troops and police on the ground, out of a total of 26,000 that have been authorized. | | By: THE NEW BABYLON TIMES | | |
| | European Union Blames Darfur on Global Warming | | 2008-03-08 15:28:58 | | You should be really angry after reading this story. The EU just came out recently blaming many of the conflicts around the world, including Darfur, on Global Warming. Yes, apparently the liberal elites around the world believe that the religious and tribal genocide, where women and children are murdered senselessly, is due to half of a degree increase in temperature.
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| | News: UN Peace Keeping in Darfur. A New UNStart? | | 2008-01-31 08:06:23 | | A United Nations peacekeeping police officer, holds the babies handed to hear by two refugee women, while on patrol in the Abou Shouk refugee camp in North Darfur. The patrol was one of the first to re-enter Darfur's refugee camps since the United Nations took over peacekeeping in Darfur this month to try to end five years of violence. (full post)I might sound largely cynical, but the way the UN Peace Keeping Operations works, with often a too limited mandate and an intrinsic bureaucracy, I would not be surprised if the same mothers would take a shot at the guy in the middle, one year from now. Mark my words.Photo courtesy AP/Alfred de Montesquiou. Source: International Aid Workers Today
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| | The Children of Darfur | | 2008-01-12 18:44:00 | | It’s been a year and half since my kids, their friends, my mom and I drove down to Washington, DC for a rally on the Mall to raise awareness about the genocide in Darfur. The rally was co-sponsored by the Save Darfur coalition and the American Jewish World Service - two organizations that have worked tirelessly to educate the citizens of our world about the atrocities that continue to afflict the people of Sudan, to help advocate for solutions and to seek financial support for their efforts. There are many groups who are working on the ground in Darfur and neighboring Chad as well, helping the hundreds of thousands of refugees caught in this conflict. And still more who are doing both. I returned from the rally, feeling empowered and inspired by the speakers. I got involved in our state-wide coalition. My daughter and her friends received a grant to host a screening of the documentary, “God Grew Tired of Us” about the Lost Boys of Sudan and sponsored a “DarfurFast” through STAND to raise money for Darfur. They organized their high school class to sponsor a road race for “Right to Play”, an organization that brings sports and health education to kids in war-torn countries.And then time got in the way, as always. Or life. Or just stuff. But my involvement has been diminished to reading email alerts from the Save Darfur Coalition and following events in the news. My concern is still as great, my compassion for these souls no less. I put this slide show together from pictures I found on the WE news archive. It’s not much but maybe it might just nudge us all a little to keep ourselves aware of what is happening across the ocean. As we read news reports of the latest outbreak of civil war in Kenya and the ongoing kidnapping of children by militias for more soldiers in Uganda, the story only continues. As someone once told me, “we’re all made from the same blood” - pain and despair whether down our street, in our country or elsewhere in the world is | | By: Minivan Diaries | | |
| | La coscienza dell'Europa si sveglia e decide di intervenire in Darfur | | 2008-01-11 16:21:59 | | L'Europa rompe gli indugi e finalmente riesce ad assumere la decisione di schierare una forza di pace in Ciad e nella Repubblica Centroafricana per la protezione dei profughi in arrivo dalla vicina regione del Darfur.L'intervento anche se doveroso, arriva comunque sempre tardivo.Basta ricordare che nel Darfur, nel silenzio e nell'indiffernza quasi totale del mondo, in quattro anni di feroci combattimenti, sono morti più di duecento mila uomini, e gli sfollati hanno raggiunto l'impressionante numero di due milioni di persone.La missione Europea avrebbe dovuto partire già lo scorso dicembre, quando mancavano ancora 800 soldati e 10 elicotteri, come ricordava anche Cloney in una recente intervista.Ora finalmente , con la messa a disposizione degli uomini e degli elicotteri , Polonia, Francia e Belgio renderanno possibile l'intervento.Anche la Russia e l'Ucraina, stando a fonti diplomatiche, starebbero valutando l'ipotesi di partecipare al programma di aiuti.La missione dell'Ue vedrà impiegati circa 3.500 uomini e sarà composta perlopiù da truppe francesi.Alla fine le ragioni umanitarie hanno reso doveroso ed indispensabile un intervento, che in caso contrario, avrebbe pesato sulla coscienza di ognuno.Di più la necessità e l'obbligo morale della scelta viene assunta proprio da quelle nazioni del vecchio continente, come la Francia, che in tal modo si fanno carico delle responsabilita che le derivano dal loro passato coloniale, che tanti guasti ha creato, e tuttora sta creando, nel continente africano.
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| | United Nations Causes Child Malnutrition in Darfur: Liberals Stunned | | 2007-12-27 14:00:26 | | In case anyone picked up The New York Times today, the front cover of the paper had a headline: “Darfur Sees Rise in Malnutrition.” What we learned from this article was that child malnutrition rates have increased sharply in Darfur, even though it is home to the world’s largest aid operation. We are also told that the increase has occurred despite the efforts of more than 13,000 relief workers...
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| | News: Darfur. Do We Still Care? | | 2007-12-20 20:11:00 | | How many more movies and documentaries are to be shown before the world has the courage to change anything about the situation in Darfur? This video shows why we should care!For updated humanitarian news, check out The Other World News
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| | News: Darfur Rebels Threaten to Attack Capital | | 2007-12-20 13:52:00 | | Today Darfur rebels threatened to attack West Darfur's state capital El-Geneina and told aid workers to stay in their compounds and away from government military bases. (Full Post)Picture courtesy REUTERS/Mohamed NureldinFor updated humanitarian news, check out The Other World News
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| | Save Darfur Shirt by Pretty Hammer | | 2007-11-08 17:47:00 | | Pretty Hammer just released a new t-shirt for charity. There's not a lot to be said here; the t-shirt is called "Save Darfur" and 100% of the proceeds will be donated to Save Darfur organization. The t-shirt has the typical esoteric and sensitive characteristics of all Pretty Hammer designs, and costs $25.
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| | darfur- take action! | | 2007-10-24 18:18:27 | | most folks know that the situation in darfur is desperate. the news is never good there- and i guess i continue to wonder about how human beings can view other humans as objects to be tortured and killed. i think folks get numbed to the mindless genocide around the world and it is all too easy to write these impoverished places off. the 'oh well, let them kill each other if they want to' mentality amazes me- especially from 'bleeding heart' liberals and 'pro-life' conservatives. we allegedly went into iraq (in the third incarnation of reasons i think) to save those poor folks from the horrors of living under saddam hussein. why, then, are we not preemptively going into darfur to save those folks from the janjaweed? and no- that isn't a name from a star wars movie. the west has completely ignored africa- except to plunder its natural resources. we bribe or intimidate whoever we have to to get what we want- and to hell with the indigenous peoples.the un has coalition troops ready to go- but then- we get the news that blackwater has reared its ugly head yet again. yes, since they have done such a fine job in iraq, apparently, they want to make a few billion dollars more in darfur. so, not only do we have to pressure our government to get involved in darfur- we have to pressure them to NOT send the blackwater thugs to darfur. nice.for some resources and info on darfur- quaker dave at the quaker agitator- has some good ones on his sidebar.instantkarma.org has information and petitions to sign- but please, take a moment and think about what africa means to the world. we agreed after world war 2 to never allow genocide happen again. more than 2 million people are displaced and hundreds of thousands are living in refugee camps. no hard data exists as to the death toll, but experts are convinced it's also in the hundreds of thousands. how many folks have to die before it is called a 'terrorist act?'http://www.relaywave.com/pingRelayWave.php
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| | Desmond Tutu and Jimmy Carter To Help Darfur! | | 2007-10-06 14:03:00 | | The Elders are a newly formed peace group interested in peace missions. The group is made up of many famous folks, including former South African President Nelson Mandela and former US president Jimmy Carter. From their website:We, the Elders, are here because we care deeply for the fate of our planet, and we feel intensely the suffering of millions of people in Darfur who yearn for nothing more than peace and dignity.The group, in similar style to the United Nations (UN), hopes to boast powerful world leaders and address needs in human suffering around the world. The first step will be possibly one of the biggest battles to tackle in current history: Darfur, Sudan. The crisis there has been brewing violently for four years now, forcing over 2 million people to flee and live in refugee camps. The BBC reports this week: "The United Nations Security Council has approved a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force to replace the 7,000 African Union (AU) observer mission struggling to protect civilians in Sudan's western province of Darfur. While the AU and UN struggle to bring lasting peace to Darfur, The Elders hope to become a peaceful force in the struggle. Will it be enough among the ensuing violence? The Christian Science Monitor is hopeful this week.In Sudan, where African Union mediators, Hollywood stars, and even the pope have failed to secure a lasting peace, South Africa's retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his group of retired statesmen, The Elders, are stepping in. ...Sending an elder statesman, with no political stake in the outcome, to seek a peaceful solution is a proven conflict-resolution tool. Retired Sen. George Mitchell, for example, was instrumental in bringing peace to Northern Ireland. And if one elder statesman has an edge, will a bevy of them ensure success?The Elders have already begun to talk directly with the local community leaders and displaced people living in camps. The beginnings of their journey were met with an up-close look at the violence | | By: Life Consistency | | |
| | Why Would Darfur Rebels Attack AU Peacekeepers? | | 2007-10-02 01:32:15 | | BBC: Darfur rebels 'behind AU attack' What’s this? The rebels are behind the attack on African Union troops that are supposed to be protecting them? What’s up with that?Professor Seth Weinberger has some truly excellent analysis over at his blog, Security Dilemnas.But it's altogether likely that the rebels do, in fact, want the peacekeepers out. The rebels are those Darfur who have decided to take up arms against the Sudanese government in hopes of achieving greater political autonomy and protection, if not independence, for Darfur. The presence of peacekeepers, while perhaps sufficing to minimize or prevent the attacks against civilians that has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions more, will not serve to advance the larger political goal. If anything, the peacekeepers will serve to entrench the status quo by freezing the battlelines and political demands in place. They certainly will make it more difficult for the rebels to attain their larger political goals.To sum it up, African Union troops make sure the status quo in Darfur does not change. That’s not the rebels’ goals. They want change, and the African Union isn’t helping them.
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| | Rumble: Living Darfur | | 2007-09-28 08:36:00 | | The single, ‘Living Darfur' by Mattafix was filmed in the refugee camps on the Chad/Darfur border where over 200,000 people have been killed over the last four years.The project is backed by a host of international names. Desmond Tutu, Matt Damon, Elle MacPherson, the Black Eyed Peas and many others have supported the project by appearing in the video holding slogans demanding action on Darfur. The project was funded by Mick Jagger.All artist royalties from this single will be donated to Oxfam, Crisis Action, and the Save Darfur Coalition to support their work on the Darfur crisis but the main purpose of the single is to raise awareness of the crisis. (Read more...)Thanks to E. for the link
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| | 16 de septiembre, Día Global por Darfur | | 2007-09-14 19:20:49 | | Sr. Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir
Presidente de la República de Sudán
Sr. Presidente:
Cientos de miles de personas han muerto en Darfur a causa del conflicto, y más de dos millones se han visto obligadas a abandonar sus hogares. La población de Darfur vive inmersa en una crisis humanitaria y de derechos humanos de enormes proporciones. No puede [...] | | By: CuervoBlanco | | |
| | DARFUR JUSTICE | | 2007-09-12 01:21:29 | | Please sign the Peace with Justice for DarfurPetition to be delivered to the Darfur Contact group.
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| | | News Round-Up: Sudan Still Shipping Arms into Darfur. | | 2007-08-27 22:29:00 | | In an earlier post, I wrote about a leaked UN report accusing the Government of Sudan transporting weaponry into Darfur, disregarding UN security resolutions.New pictures released last week, showed once again Antonov military planes and Russian-supplied Mi-24 military helicopters at an airport in Geneina, a town in Sudan's Darfur region... I wonder how the Government of Sudan will deny this, yet again.Picture courtesy Washington Post
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| | Stop the Genocide in Darfur! | | 2007-07-29 23:31:17 | | US Congressional Committee Passes Darfur Accountability and Divestment Act that will now be up for voting in the general congress. Help stop the genocide in Darfur, Darfur: An Unforgivable Hell on Earth needs your help and cooperation this Monday, 30th of July, 2007 to call your US representatives to urge them to vote for the passage of H.R. 180.
The Darfur Accountability and Divestment Act. H.R. | | By: Pedestrian Observer | | |
| | Darfur Being Resettled by Arabs | | 2007-07-17 08:18:47 | | This sheds an even uglier light on things.From The Independent:Arabs pile into Darfur to take land 'cleansed' by janjaweedBy Steve Bloomfield, Africa Correspondent Arabs | | By: Dyre Portents | | |
| | Rice: Sudan must stop trying to limit Darfur force | | 2007-06-24 20:58:32 | | By Arshad MohammedReutersSunday, June 24, 2007; 8:30 AM PARIS (Reuters) - Sudan must stop trying to "scale back" a hybrid international force for Darfur, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said as she flew to Paris for talks on the humanitarian crisis in the western Sudanese region.The aim of the force is to stop the violence in Darfur, where international experts estimate 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been expelled from their homes in more than four years of strife. Sudan says 9,000 people have died.Sudan on June 12 agreed to a combined United Nations and African Union peacekeeping force of more than 20,000 troops and police but many diplomats doubt Khartoum will keep its word. moreTo stay up to date on the crisis in Darfur please visit The Blog Coalition for Darfur
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| | Sudan 'backs UN-led Darfur force' | | 2007-06-18 19:36:58 | | From the BBC:Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has agreed unconditionally to a joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force for Darfur, diplomats have said. South Africa's ambassador at the UN, Dumisani Kumalo, said Mr Bashir backed the move after a meeting with Security Council envoys in Khartoum. Sudan agreed to allow the 19,000-strong force earlier in the week but ultimate control has been a sticking-point. Violence in Darfur has killed more than 200,000 people and made 2.5m refugees. An existing AU force of 7,000 troops has struggled to contain the conflict. Much of the violence has been linked to clashes between government-sponsored Janjaweed militias and Darfur's rebel groups. moreI'm not at all inclined to believe he'll keep his word given the history. So pardon me for not rejoicing. Hopefully this time will be different but I doubt it.
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| | House urges China to press Sudan over Darfur | | 2007-06-06 06:56:39 | | ReutersTuesday, June 5, 2007; 8:56 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives urged China on Tuesday to use its influence and economic leverage to stop what President George W. Bush has called the genocide in Sudan's Darfur region.The lawmakers charged that China, which buys much of Sudan's oil, has stood in the way of halting bloodshed in the western Sudanese region, but stopped short of joining calls to boycott the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing made by some politicians, activists and celebrities."China should act consistently with the Olympic standard of preserving human dignity in Darfur, Sudan and around the world," said the resolution passed by the House on a vote of 410-0.The resolution urged China to stop selling Sudan arms and suspend economic cooperation with Sudan until Sudan "stops its attacks on civilians" in Darfur and engages in negotiations with Darfur rebels to achieve a peace deal. moreTo stay up to date on the crisis in Darfur please visit Sudan Wat | | By: Dyre Portents | | |
| | 3 Plans for Darfur That Will Work | | 2007-06-05 02:51:00 | | FOR A LETTER TO SENATOR KERRY REGARDING DARFUR SEE: Letter to Senator John Kerry on the Situation in DarfurSome interesting ideas were proposed at the Democratic debate yesterday, not regarding Iraq, but Darfur. Here are three actions that could be taken that have the best chance of stopping the genocide.1. Boycott the Chinese Olympics until China ends its support for the Sudanese governmentChina is easily the biggest backer of the Sudanese dictatorship. Taking them out of the equation would make ending the genocide much easier.2. No fly zone over SudanThis could be enforced along with trade sanctions. Without any money, Omar al-Bashir would surrender quickly. He can only get so much food for himself, right?3. Send in troopsUnder Chapter 7 of their constitution, the U.N. is allowed to use force if necessary. Sadly, war is likely the only way to stop the violence in Darfur. Both the Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide were only ended after war. | | By: Thoughts on the World | | |
| | US Seeks to Increase Pressure on Sudan to End Darfur Violence | | 2007-06-01 05:00:00 | | DownloadThis is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.What exactly is genocide? The word was invented by Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish lawyer who fled Poland at the start of World War Two and came to the United States. He lost almost every member of his family to the Holocaust carried out by Nazi Germany.Sudanese women in a refugee camp in Chad in July 2004 protesting the violence in DarfurIn a nineteen forty-four book, Raphael Lemkin wrote that by "genocide" he meant the destruction of a nation or an ethnic group. But not necessarily the immediate destruction. It can also describe a plan of actions taken against groups with the aim, in the end, to destroy the groups themselves.His efforts led in nineteen forty-eight to a United Nations treaty against the crime of genocide. It took effect in nineteen fifty-one. It defines genocide as actions taken with the goal to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.The acts listed include killing or causing serious phys | | By: Giang Day Truc Tuyen - Teaching Online | | |
| | Rice to Tackle Darfur and Iran at G8 | | 2007-05-31 00:25:41 | | From Reuters:G8 to tackle Iran and Darfur Foreign ministers from the Group of Eight nations are to gather in Germany to discuss the nuclear standoff with Iran, the unresolved conflict in Sudan's Darfur region and other pressing international issues.(snip)Diplomats said US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is hoping her counterparts from Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Japan and Canada will agree that the elite club of industrialised nations should put pressure on Iran at next week's summit to suspend its nuclear enrichment programme.(snip)Sudan is another topic on the agenda. The United States and Britain are interested in expanding UN sanctions against Sudan due to the violence in its Darfur region, but Russia is wary such action would do little to calm the situation. On Darfur, Rice said she would discuss with G8 ministers what action could be taken at the UN Security Council to put pressure on Sudan's government following the US announcement of new unilateral sanctions | | By: Dyre Portents | | |
| | Britain Backs U.S. on Darfur Sanctions | | 2007-05-30 21:30:22 | | By CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAYThe Associated PressWednesday, May 30, 2007; 12:57 PMLUNGI, Sierra Leone -- Britain supports a U.S. proposal to impose U.N. sanctions against the government of Sudan for its role in Darfur's bloodshed, a spokesman for Tony Blair said Wednesday as the prime minister arrived in Sierra Leone.President Bush announced Tuesday the United States would draft the U.N. resolution, saying the Sudanese government has been complicit in atrocities against civilians and has been uncooperative with international efforts to end the Darfur crisis.Britain "fully supports U.S. efforts to address the desperate situation in Darfur in the Security Council," the spokesman said before Blair arrived in Lungi, near Sierra Leone's capital of Freetown."We hope that all members of the (U.N. Security Council) will work with the U.S. to create a resolution which will effectively address the challenges in Darfur," he said on condition of anonymity in line with British government policy.Aides | | By: Dyre Portents | | |
| | First U.N. Peacekeeper Killed in Darfur | | 2007-05-27 07:09:46 | | Gunmen in Darfur kill U.N. peacekeeperA United Nations peacekeeper who was among a small group of reinforcements sent to Darfur was shot to death at his residence — the world body's first casualty since its long-negotiated arrival in the troubled region, officials said Saturday. Gunmen looted the home of the U.N. peacekeeper — an Egyptian lieutenant colonel — in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, and fatally shot him late Friday, the African Union and U.N. said. "The senseless killing of an innocent man in the confines of his residence is beyond comprehension," said Hassan Gibril, the deputy head of the AU mission, at a memorial for Lt. Col. Ehab Nazir. The gunmen who killed him were thought to be burglars, but an official close to the investigation said authorities would not exclude other motives. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media. In Cairo, the foreign ministry deplored the Egyptian officer's death and c | | By: Dyre Portents | | |
| | U.N.-AU draw up plans for large Darfur force | | 2007-05-25 22:13:04 | | By Evelyn LeopoldReutersFriday, May 25, 2007; 8:55 AM UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations and the African Union drew up plans for a peacekeeping force for Darfur of more than 23,000 troops, police and other personnel to protect civilians and be able to use force to deter violence.The so-called AU-UN "hybrid" force still has to be approved by the U.N. Security Council and the AU's Peace and Security Committee and then submitted to the Sudanese government.U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said the Security Council could adopt a statement as early as Friday on the 40-page plan."I think that is a positive development," he said. "Now the ball will be in Sudan's court."Sudan has not rejected the force but various top officials have said the number of troops were too large and that the United Nations should finance and augment the African Union force of 7,000 with logistics, command and control functions, transport and financing. moreTo stay up to date on the crisis in Darfur visi | | By: Dyre Portents | | |
| | US Congress raps China over Darfur | | 2007-05-10 04:52:37 | | From the AP:More than 100 US lawmakers signed a robustly worded letter calling on China's President Hu Jintao to take immediate action to stop bloodshed in Darfur, a senior lawmaker said Thursday. Tom Lantos (news, bio, voting record), Democratic chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, expressed grave concern at continuing atrocities in the region, and warned that as the largest foreign investor in Sudan, China had influence to wield. "The international community is stepping up to its responsibilities, but unless China does its part to ensure that the government of Sudan accepts the best and most reasonable path to peace, history will judge your government as having bank-rolled a genocide," the letter to Hu read. The letter also warned China's image could be tarnished ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics if it failed to do more to curtail Khartoum. "This appalling genocide has already destroyed untold numbers of families, due to displacement or death | | By: Dyre Portents | | |
| | Darfur, primer genocidio del siglo 21 | | 2007-04-29 02:15:00 | | “En algunos lugares de Darfur la sangre corre como si fuera agua”.
Son palabras de Kristyan Benedict, de Amnistía Internacional, pronunciadas hoy 29 de abril el Día Mundial por Darfur, durante la jornada de protesta en Londres. El Día Mundial por Darfur fue concebido inicialmente por un grupo de ONGS que trabajaban en Darfur [...] | | By: CuervoBlanco | | |
| | Darfur: UN report denounces rapes by Sudan soldiers | | 2007-04-21 17:38:00 | | (ADNKI).- The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights called for investigations into widespread sexual violence during attacks by Sudanese government forces and allied militia in Darfur as well as the disappearance of over a dozen men allegedly at the hands of rebels there. In a new report, the High Commissioner's Office describes attacks in December 2006 in eastern Jebel Marra, Darfur. At least 15 cases of sexual assault, including rape, had occurred, according to the report. At least two pregnant women were targeted in the violence. "Soldiers came in cars heading towards the hills. Three were in green military uniform and the fourth was in civilian clothes. All four of them were armed and all of them raped me," said one 13-year old victim, according to the report.More | | By: THE NEW BABYLON TIMES | | |
| | News Round-up: Chinese Media Report Darfur To Be "Stable and Natural" | | 2007-04-08 18:09:00 | | A Chinese government delegation visited refugee camps and met officials in western Sudan's strife-torn Darfur province to "get acquainted" with the situation there, Chinese state media reported on Sunday. "Administrative officials said that life of some 50,000 internally displaced people (at the camp) was stable and natural."Continuing their four-day official visit, the delegation also visited a refugee camp with 14,000 people in Nyala, South Darfur province, and met provincial governor Al-Haj Atta al-Mannan Idris. Idris said the general situation was "stable and improving".Yeah, right! Read the full post here | | By: The Road to the Horizon | | |
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