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Benjamin B. Collins ’06 and Hillary M. Mucheru ’07 joined featured guest speaker Simon Deng in demanding that local universities and city and state governments cut financial ties with the regime that has been accused by the United Nations of waging a genocidal campaign against inhabitants of Sudan’s Darfur region...
...Deng called for divestment out of a desire to prevent the sort of widespread bloodshed he witnessed as a slave during another civil war between north and south during the 1980s and 1990s. He said he felt that war was exacerbated by a lack of international awareness...
...Deng also said that divestment was one of the more effective strategies for taking on Sudan’s government, as he dismissed the role of the United Nations, which he felt would not confront the regime. The war has been described as a confrontation between an Arab governing elite and black minority...
...What you see today in Darfur is not something new. Sudan has been in war since before independence,” Deng said...
...With your pen,” Deng said, “you can save victims in the Sudan...