Word: darfur
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Responding to organized student pressure, at least two of Harvard’s graduate schools have agreed to allow students and affiliates to use Crimson Cash to support peacekeepers in the Darfur region of Sudan...
...Monday night, a student-led group started an online petition, at www.harvardinvest.com, to show support for the option of using dining plan money to fund peacekeeping in Darfur. As of 11:30 last night, 2,779 people—roughly half of whom are undergraduates, the other half students at Harvard’s graduate schools—had placed their names on the petition...
...there may be a timely and effective solution to halt the killing sprees in Darfur: a mercenary army. Mercenary armies are often composed of former or current soldiers lured away by the high pay of the private sector. As New York Times reporter Elizabeth Rubin puts it, they are “willing to do what the United Nations cannot: take sides, take casualties, deploy overwhelming force and fire pre-emptively.” In Sudan, they would come in, protect the civilians from the Janjaweed and the Sudanese army, and remain until the international community asked them to leave...
Moreover, compared to our current non-solutions for Darfur, a mercenary army is cheap. Executive Outcomes’ Sierra-Leonian adventure cost $1.8 million dollars a month, but prior to that, the international community was paying $60 million for fetid refugee camps in Guinea that were not a sustainable solution to begin with. Refugees from Darfur are flowing into Chad, piling into bursting refugee camps that cannot even ensure basic hygiene. Human security, too, is not guaranteed. Poorly-drawn African borders have ensured the Janjaweed a trans-national cohort of persecutors. Even in Chad, women are beaten and raped...
...party of foreign policy idealism? And since when are the Democrats—who authored the Fourteen Points, the New Freedom, the Marshall Plan, and NATO—the party of dictator-coddling realists? And most recently: the party that fails to pound Bush for dragging his feet on Darfur nearly as much as we pounded him for rushing into Iraq...