Word: darfur
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...ship pure glacial water to thirsty parts of the world, as I haven't met anyone yet who drinks oil. Patti Tetrault Truro, Massachusetts, U.S. Risky Operation U.N. Ambassador John Bolton's answer to your question about the possibility of a more aggressive response to the genocide in Darfur was quite telling [Feb. 27]. He said, "You could end up with a lot of dead military people and not save a single civilian." The Janjaweed militia, which is doing the killing, is armed with rifles and riding horses and camels. Surely the U.S. military is capable of taking them...
...Center. Yesterday’s awards ceremony, held at the JFK Forum at the Kennedy School of Government, featured a special award presented to New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof ’81, a former Crimson editor, for his reporting on the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. Many of Kristof’s columns on the crisis, which began appearing in the fall of 2004, exposed the crimes committed in Darfur through personal accounts from Sudanese refugees who had been forced to flee their homes. Jim Lehrer, the host of The News Hour...
...Ambassador John Bolton's answer to your question about the possibility of a more aggressive response to the genocide in Darfur was quite telling [Feb. 27]. He said, "You could end up with a lot of dead military people and not save a single civilian." The Janjaweed militia, which is doing the killing, is armed with rifles and riding horses and camels. Surely the U.S. military is capable of taking them...
...have lost everything but my children. We have three bowls of grain left." ZAHARA ISSAC MAHAMAT, a refugee in Chad, where violence has spilled over from the war-ravaged Darfur region of Sudan, driving some 20,000 residents from their homes...
...former Treasury secretary expressed concern with the decreasing level of attention given to Sudan by the United States. United Nations officials estimate that as many as 200,000 people have died as a result of clashes between Sudanese government-backed militias and black Muslims in the western region of Darfur, and the U.S. Congress passed a resolution in 2004 stating that the situation rises to the level of genocide.“I’m disturbed that there seems to be some evidence of some diminution of concern by our government about what’s happening in Darfur...