Word: darfur
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...CCSR’s statement, “substantial revenue from Sudan’s oil production has gone toward the purchase of weapons.” The Sudanese government has armed the Janjaweed militiamen who have slaughtered tens of thousands of villagers in the western region of Darfur...
...What seems to me most important, though, is the statement that Harvard has made about the seriousness of what’s happening in Darfur,” Summers said...
They distributed green ribbons to demonstrators which read, “How many is too many? Fight genocide in Darfur...
Student organizer Jennifer N. Wynn ’06 said she hoped that the Harvard Corporation would see that “the student body has surpassed all racial, ethnic and special interest divisions to make the genocide in Darfur a humanitarian issue with which we want Harvard to be connected only in a constructive...
Campus student groups that sponsored the demonstration included Amnesty International, the Darfur Action Group, the Harvard Black Students Association, the Harvard Black Men’s Forum, the Association of Black Harvard Women, BGLTSA, Fuerza Latina, the Harvard AIDS Coalition, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association, according to Wynn.a