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...panel of human rights and foreign policy experts debated the causes of and possible solutions to the humanitarian crisis in Darfur at a packed event at the Institute of Politics’ John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last night, urging students to speak out against the international community’s inaction...
...struggle between black farmers and the government-sponsored Arab militiamen has displaced 1.4 million people from the Darfur region of western Sudan...
...need to put our guns where are our mouth is,” said Omar Ismail, director of Darfur Peace and Development, a multi-national non-profit organization that advocates for peace in Darfur. “Our government needs to do far more than it’s doing; all it’s done for all this yammering and ‘g-word’-using is sanction the rebels,” said Lecturer in Public Policy Samantha Power. Dallaire said the American media is partly to blame...
...Darfur crisis is also the fault of] African leaders who don’t know how to lead and don’t understand what politics...
...Janjaweed have terrorized black African settlements throughout the region of Darfur, killing, raping and pillaging as they advance. As of Friday, the United Nations reports that 70,000 people have already died in the underfunded, understaffed and undersupplied Sudanese refugee camps. This does not estimate those who have been murdered or left to starve away from the camps—which Eric Reeves, an independent Sudan watcher working from reports by displaced people, claims to be approximately 300,000, as reported recently in the Washington Post. The UN estimates that over 10,000 people could die monthly in the camps...