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...waging genocide against Darfurians, it may also be wishful thinking to imagine a united front of fractious rebel groups and Janjaweed defectors. Still, some rebel commanders believe the situation has changed dramatically as a result of actions by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Although international pressure on Khartoum has been slow in coming, with U.N. Security Council action stonewalled by China, and Sudan refusing entry to U.N. peacekeeping forces, the ICC has targeted specific leaders for prosecution. Last month, its chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo asked pre-trial judges to issue summonses for Ahmed Haroun, a former state interior minister...
...decisions to divest from holdings in these two companies earned the University widespread praise as the catalyst for a national movement in which 30 other universities and six states have divested from companies supporting the Sudanese government’s genocidal regime. This movement has generated more leverage over Khartoum than most of the governmental approaches to date. So while the revelations about the scale of Harvard’s indirect investments are deeply troubling, there is still reason to be hopeful that Harvard will take the action necessary to live up to its positive public reputation on this issue...
...African people and a responsible major power," said a statement from New York-based Human Rights Watch. "But that doesn't square with staying silent while mass killings go on in Darfur." The statement criticized China for blocking several U.N. resolutions aimed at forcing the government in Khartoum to cease its support for the militias blamed for much of the killing in Darfur...
...this time by the veto power of China, which does brisk business in Sudanese oil and supplies the Sudanese government with most of its armaments. The United Nations’ latest resolution called for a peacekeeping force, but only if the Sudanese government sponsoring the genocide wanted it there. (Khartoum declined...
...have the resources to beef up the African Union and give it the teeth to get to the bottom of this problem. If all government officials in Africa stopped stealing for a day, we could equip a peacekeeping force for Darfur and have enough left over to engage the Khartoum government in constructive dialogue to finally bring peace. Lucas Mboya Nairobi Stumbling Toward Democracy Andrew Marshall's viewpoint on Thailand's military coup, "Dictators' Delight" [Oct. 9], would have been more appropriately titled "A Dictator's Demise." Before the coup, the stress level of all educated and well-informed Thais...