Is anyone here paying attention to what's going on in the Sudan? It's absolutely appalling. News in many mainstream papers has been relatively scarce, but the Washington Post has had a few significant articles lately.
Don't let this become another Rwanda. Contact your federal representatives and let them know you want the U.S. to intervene to make this stop. I understand that Colin Powell just traveled to the Sudan to speak with heads of state there about the situation, but we need to do more. If you live in a city with a Sudanese embassy or counsulate, start or join a protest there.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Jun29.html
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Don't let this become another Rwanda. Contact your federal representatives and let them know you want the U.S. to intervene to make this stop. I understand that Colin Powell just traveled to the Sudan to speak with heads of state there about the situation, but we need to do more. If you live in a city with a Sudanese embassy or counsulate, start or join a protest there.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Jun29.html
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| Riding on horseback and camel, the Janjaweed, many of them teenagers or young adults, burned villages, stole and destroyed grain supplies and animals and raped women, according to refugees and U.N. and human rights investigators. The government used helicopter gunships and aging Russian planes to bomb the area, the U.N. and human rights representatives said. The U.S. government has said it is investigating the killings of an estimated 30,000 people in Darfur and the displacement of the more than 1 million people from their tribal lands to determine whether the violence should be classified as genocide. The New York-based organization Human Rights Watch said in a June 22 report that it investigated "the use of rape by both Janjaweed and Sudanese soldiers against women from the three African ethnic groups targeted in the 'ethnic cleansing' campaign in Darfur." It added, "The rapes are often accompanied by dehumanizing epithets, stressing the ethnic nature of the joint government-Janjaweed campaign. The rapists use the terms 'slaves' and 'black slaves' to refer to the women, who are mostly from the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups." |
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| Over the past 16 months, more than 10,000 people have been killed and thousands driven from their homes by the Arab militiamen. Human rights and aid groups accuse the government of carrying out an ethnic cleansing campaign, targeting three tribes: the Fur, Massaleit and Zaghawa. Sudanese authorities tightly restrict access to the region. But this week, NASA satellite photos still being reviewed provided a clearer view: 56,000 houses, with conical roofs known as tukels, have been destroyed in nearly 400 villages. Aid workers predict that many more people will die, and that the U.N. World Food Program will be able to reach only 800,000 of the 1.2 million displaced people because of continuing violence. Aid workers are also concerned the rainy season will slow or stop food shipments. And waterborne diseases in crowded camps with no latrines will increase the number of deaths, they said. The U.S. Agency for International Development estimated that at least 350,000 people will die of disease and malnutrition over the next nine months. |
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