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...accused Sudan of developing chemical weapons, and the United States bombed a factory in Khartoum six years ago. But both President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry have stopped short of saying they would use force to stop the ongoing slaughter of civilians in the western Sudanese region of Darfur...
Since humanitarian conditions in Darfur deterioriated earlier this year, Manav Bhatnagar ’06 began following the situation closely, along with his Eliot House roommate Ben Collins ’06. After learning of Harvard’s involvement in PetroChina last week, Collins said he and Bhatnagar purchased a web domain for $10 and drafted a petition “demand[ing] that the University actively oppose and resist the ongoing genocide in Sudan...
...Death in Darfur...
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 E.U. is foot dragging, probably out of fear of reprisal attacks by Islamist militants. The defenseless people of Darfur need the intervention...
...economic sanctions in the U.N. rendered impossible by China’s veto power on the Security Council and military intervention in Sudan unlikely at best, Harvard must lead the movement to divest—starving the Sudanese government of the support it requires to fund the genocide in Darfur and signaling American support for human rights in Africa...