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...What you see today in Darfur is not something new. Sudan has been in war since before independence,” Deng said...
...event was the conclusion of the group’s week-long campaign of flyering and holding small events to raise student awareness of the situation in the Darfur...
...conflict in Darfur has received increased media attention in recent months, but Deng stressed that the government and the militias it supports have a long history of violence...
Harvard’s Darfur Action Group, which organized the event, handed out petitions for students to sign, urging the United States government and the United Nations to take more action in reigning in the Sudanese government...
...Darfur Action Group is also promoting an effort to get Harvard to divest from companies that conduct business with the Sudanese government. According to organizers, approximately 350 members of the Harvard community have signed a petition asking the University to selling its shares in PetroChina, a Beijing-based oil firm with links to Khartoum. The University’s most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission indicate that stake is worth $1.8 million...