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NOUREDDINE MEZNI, an African Union spokesman, after hundreds of Darfur rebels overran a Union peacekeeping base, killing at least 10 soldiers and kidnapping dozens more...
...heartthrob, but he's also a serious Darfur activist who knows what it's like to be different in high school. His latest movie, Michael Clayton, opens Oct. 12. George Clooney will now take your questions...
Historically, Harvard has been reluctant to let human rights considerations affect its investment decisions. But on rare occasions, the University has dropped its holdings in firms that have close ties to particularly reprehensible regimes. In response to the Darfur genocide, Harvard sold its stake in the oil company PetroChina in 2005. The Harvard Corporation, the school’s seven-member senior governing body, cited a “unique pattern of circumstances relating PetroChina to the crisis in Sudan”: oil revenues from a PetroChina-backed project have funded Sudanese weapons purchases, enabling the regime to slaughter innocent...
Khalil Ibrahim, Darfur rebel leader, on President Bush's call for a cease-fire in Sudan during October peace talks. Ibrahim, who has been personally sanctioned by Washington, called U.S. threats "a trick...
Reeves and his colleagues in the groups seeking action on Darfur say Sudan has reneged on similar promises before and already shows signs of doing so again. So they intend to continue goading Beijing to keep pushing Khartoum. "We say to the Chinese, 'We know you think this is your moment to step onto the world stage, but we are going to rain on your parade,'" Reeves says. "They know more pressure is coming and are afraid." In the case of Darfur, says Tsinghua's Yan, "yes, the pressure worked." But he is quick to add that just because Western...