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...Omar Al-Bashir insisted the crisis was merely a "tribal conflict" that affects "only 6 percent of Greater Darfur" - this despite the fact that it has displaced a full one-third of Darfur's 5 million inhabitants. "Nobody wears a white hat here," says a senior Western diplomat in Khartoum...
...Genocide Convention covers the actions of the janjaweed killers. Their goal is to wipe out the Darfurians as a group; they are urged on by the flames of ethnic hatred fanned by the central Sudanese government in Khartoum under President Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir...
...also promoting an effort to get Harvard to divest from companies that conduct business with the Sudanese government. According to organizers, approximately 350 members of the Harvard community have signed a petition asking the University to selling its shares in PetroChina, a Beijing-based oil firm with links to Khartoum. The University’s most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission indicate that stake is worth $1.8 million...
...operations in Sudan. The editors rightfully pointed to the connection between Harvard’s endowment funds and the atrocities in Sudan. Through its investments in companies that continue to operate in genocidal Sudan, Harvard provides political and financial cover to businesses whose tax revenues and advanced technology arm Khartoum for the battle it wages against its citizens each...
...told The Crimson after the rally that he was increasingly optimistic that the United States would pressure Khartoum in the wake of President Bush’s re-election last week. Bok said he has met the President twice in the White House, and said he felt that Bush was committed to ending the Sudanese genocide...