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Over the past week, The Crimson has uncovered the full extent of Harvard’s indirect investments in PetroChina and Sinopec. These are two of the worst offending companies in terms of financial complicity with the Sudanese government’s genocidal campaign in Darfur, and as reported yesterday in an online update, Harvard currently holds $16 million worth of shares in them...
However, there is a more effective way to ensure this happens than to rely on The Crimson to be Harvard’s moral and financial watchdog. Students from the Harvard Darfur Action Group are currently working with the nationwide Sudan Divestment Taskforce to propose a targeted divestment model, like the one recently adopted by the state of California and taken up by other universities, including the University of California. If implemented, the targeted model would secure Harvard’s good reputation on this issue once...
Arab militias in Darfur, with support from the Sudanese government, have uprooted and exterminated hundreds of thousands of black, Muslim villagers in a campaign that the U.S. State Department and Congress have both termed genocide. More than 400,000 people have died in the four-year-old conflict, and more than two million have lost their homes, according to U.N. officials’ estimates...
READ MORE CRIMSON COVERAGE FROM THE 'DOLLARS IN DARFUR' INVESTIGATIVE SERIES...
Arab militias in Darfur, with support from the Sudanese government, have uprooted and exterminated black Muslim villagers in a campaign that the State Department and Congress both call a “genocide.” More than 400,000 people have died in the four-year-old conflict, and more than two million have lost their homes, according to U.N. officials’ estimates...