Word: darfur
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Rebel troops stampeded an african Union base in Darfur, Sudan, last month, murdering 10 African peacekeepers. That same week in Burma, the military regime killed a Japanese photographer and turned its machine guns on unarmed, barefoot monks. The violence in Darfur and Burma met with widespread international condemnation but scant concrete action. The perpetrators will almost certainly get away with murder...
...gathering at Memorial Church, staged by the Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG), included a vigil and silent walk through Harvard Yard...
Since civil war broke out in Darfur in 2003, over 200,000 people have been massacred and 2.5 million made refugees as a result of the genocide...
...silent protest was HDAG’s first major event for the year. The group, which is the Harvard chapter of the national organization Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND), was founded in 2003, the same year the conflict in Darfur erupted. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
CORRECTION: The Oct. 9 news article "Students Protest Sudan Investment" gave an outdated name for the national advocacy group STAND. It is known as "A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition," not "Students Taking Action Now: Darfur...