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...source of revenue for the Khartoum government and is used to fund the Janjaweed militias that are committing genocide in Darfur. This oil provides a clear and direct chain of causation between Harvard’s monetary interests and the most heinous of injustices and human rights abuses. Indeed, it would be difficult to justify the same link if the firm in question dealt with almost any other commodity besides...
...last April that Sinopec’s involvement in Sudan was not worthy of Harvard’s divestment, Sinopec’s links to the Sudan were much murkier, particularly compared to those of PetroChina. For two decades, Sudan has been embroiled in a civil war between the Khartoum regime in the north that supports the genocide and a fledgling opposition government in the south. Because Sinopec’s Sudanese pipeline project benefited both regimes and was built into the peace agreement ending the civil war, we argued Harvard’s investment was helping to keep...
This second case of divestment from a firm doing business in the Sudan also compels us to call on Harvard Management Company (HMC) to disclose all of its holdings in firms with significant commercial activities in the Sudan and with the Khartoum regime. While we still believe that HMC cannot feasibly operate with constant oversight of all its holdings, the Sudanese genocide is an exceptional circumstance that warrants extreme measures such as disclosure, and possibly divestment. It would be hypocritical of the University to hide its holdings on foreign stock exchanges of other oil companies doing business in the Sudan...
...Khartoum for an Arab league summit last week, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas received hourly dispatches on the vote in the Israel elections. There was no secret about who he wanted to win: Ehud Olmert, leader of the centrist Kadima party, and political heir to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has lain in a coma since January. Olmert's party did better than any other; but Kadima scooped up just 29 of the 120 seats in the Knesset. Opinion polls before the vote had suggested that it would win nearly 40. "I wish Olmert had more seats," Abbas told his aides...
...ancient dream of a Greater Israel?stretching from the sea to the Jordan River?and to make room for a separate Palestinian state. That is a painful but pragmatic recognition of realities, as Olmert himself admits. A portion of his election-night speech was directed to his fan in Khartoum?Abbas. "We are ready to compromise and give up parts of our land that we love," Olmert said, "where the best of our sons and fighters are buried and, with a heavy heart, to evacuate the Jews who live there in order to allow us to fulfill your dream...