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...White House invited Amjadi, along with Save Darfur??s Executive Director Jerry Fowler, to meet Tuesday afternoon with Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration and Samantha Power, the National Security Council’s Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs...
...petitions as soon as the indictment is announced.Admittedly, even prominent American academics and human-rights activists are divided over the implications of the indictment. Alex de Waal, a senior fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, has argued that an indictment could derail peace negotiations and lead to reprisals against Darfur??s civilian population. But, given the failure of all previous peace negotiations and the already dire situation on the ground in Darfur, this may well be a risk worth taking...
...America, the idea of modern genocide is a surreal collage—distorted and unreal, comprised primarily of memoirs about the Holocaust or Khmer Rouge, and pieced together and shaded with the green of “Save Darfur?? T-shirts. But in Horacio Castellanos Moya’s “Senselessness,” genocide—real genocide—is far from this abstract idea; it’s rooted in gritty details. Moya does not try to understand “genocide,” but rather examines the notion of genocide...
...security of Iraqis. Removing the occupying force will render Obama’s bold claim that he will “end this war” sickeningly ironic. The truth is he will begin one, and a national bloodletting far more intimate and ferocious than anything thus seen in Darfur??or Iraq—will be all but inevitable. The salient question is whether Iraqi humanity or American war fatigue should be privileged in the nation’s foreign policy. Obama seems to think it should be the latter.American citizens should think twice about what will surely...
...failure to act, in spite of the fact that the whole world was aware of the atrocities taking place, is one of the most shameful facts of the twentieth century. Yet, we have once again witnessed failure of leadership to act in regards to genocide in Darfur??with the exception of Senator Obama, who has been on the forefront not just with his words but with his actions. He has co-sponsored six bills to help fight the genocide in Darfur, including the Darfur Accountability Act, the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act, and the Sudan Divestment Authorization Act.Obama...