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Arab militias known as the Janjaweed—supported, many charge, by the government in Khartoum—have attacked numerous black African villages in the country’s Darfur region, displacing upwards of 1.5 million people and leaving tens of thousands killed...
Collins and Bhatnagar write in an email, “Harvard needs to take the lead in putting financial pressure on the Sudanese government to stop the genocide in Darfur. With the largest endowment of any University in the world, when Harvard invests, people listen. The message of legitimacy Harvard sends by investing in a company like PetroChina that does business with the Sudanese government is not one we want our University to be sending...
...Greater Tragedy What is happening in Sudan is ethnic cleansing, pure and simple [Oct. 4]. The government-backed Janjaweed Arab militia is committing genocide against non-Arab Muslims. Is the world waiting for Darfur to degenerate into another Bosnia or Rwanda? I am surprised by the evasive tactics of the Bush Administration and its European counterparts. After its blunders in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. does not want to be seen as antagonizing another Muslim state, and the European Union is foot dragging, probably out of fear of reprisal attacks by Islamist militants. The defenseless people of Darfur need...
...opinion. Unfortunately, his reasons were more fantasy than fact. Bruce Garver Murrieta, California, U.S. Candid Comparisons It took only a few false reports about WMD for the Bush Administration to invade Iraq because of fears of an imminent threat. So why is nothing being done to resolve Sudan's Darfur crisis [Oct. 4], a proven humanitarian catastrophe? Perhaps it is because that tragedy does not pose any immediate danger to the U.S. and the rest of the developed world. Peace negotiations, U.N. convoys and delegations to assess the nature of the genocide are not the solution for Sudan. What...
It took only a few false reports about WMD for the Bush Administration to invade Iraq because of fears of an imminent threat. So why is nothing being done to resolve Sudan's Darfur crisis [Oct. 4], a proven humanitarian catastrophe? Perhaps it is because that tragedy does not pose any immediate danger to the U.S. and the rest of the developed world. Peace negotiations, U.N. convoys and delegations to assess the nature of the genocide are not the solution for Sudan. What is the difference between the Iraqi insurgents and the government-backed Janjaweed militia in Sudan's Darfur...