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There is no ambiguity over what the actions of the National Islamic Front regime in Khartoum amount to. Both houses of Congress, the State Department, the European Union, human rights activists, and civil society organizations have unequivocally accused the Sudanese government of waging genocide. Due to American sanctions, U.S. corporations are barred by law from doing business in Sudan...
Harvard, a Massachusetts tax-exempt institution, has publicly invested in some of the companies doing business with the Khartoum regime and thus is underwriting the genocide. Harvard’s publicly disclosed stock investments include holdings in Petrochina—a Chinese oil company with established ties to the government and genocide in Sudan—valued at almost $4 million. The full extent of Harvard’s investment in Sudan is unknown, because Harvard is required only to disclose its common stock holdings, which comprise only $3 billion out of an endowment worth $22 billion...
...companies have been prohibited from investing in Sudan since President Clinton imposed economic sanctions against the Khartoum regime in November...
...Yuschenko's inauguration cannot take place until all legal challenges are exhausted. Peace Progress SUDAN More than two decades of civil war formally came to an end as the government and southern rebels signed a peace deal that will install insurgent leader John Garang as Vice President. Khartoum announced that fresh talks with rebels in the western Darfur region would start within weeks. Making Nice NORTH KOREA Pyongyang indicated it was willing to resume talks on its nuclear program, following a four-day visit by a U.S. congressional delegation. Weathering Disaster UNITED STATES Rain- and snowstorms killed 28 people...
...cease-fire ended, Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir met with TIME at his palace in Khartoum and insisted that the international outcry over his country's rupture was a misunderstanding. There is "no reality," he said, to claims that the conflict is genocide, as President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell have said. It is "a tribal conflict," said al-Bashir, who came to power in a 1989 coup. The Janjaweed are merely "outlaws or gangsters who are used to being on horseback and holding arms or guns. They are bandits," he said. "It was started...