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Speaking to crowd of more than 100 local college students at a candlelight vigil in Boston Common Friday evening, runaway Sudanese slave Francis Bok recounted the horrors of his decade-long experience in bondage, as protesters sought to draw attention to the human rights abuses of the Khartoum regime...
...several other speakers said students must lobby American politicians and UN officials to put increased pressure on Khartoum, which thus far has refused to rein in the ongoing genocide in the western Sudanese region of Darfur...
...endorsed an effort spearheaded by two Harvard juniors to force the University into selling its estimated $3.8 million stake in PetroChina, a Beijing-based oil firm with extensive links to Khartoum...
Gaffney said he sees a diverse political alliance coalescing around efforts to prod investors to cut their ties with Sudan. The coalition includes human rights activists, security hawks who highlight the Khartoum regime’s sponsorship of terrorism, and African American clergymen who are concerned by the regime’s targeting of Christians and dark-skinned Sudanese...
Clinton administration officials accused Sudan of developing chemical weapons, and the United States bombed a factory in Khartoum six years ago. But both President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry have stopped short of saying they would use force to stop the ongoing slaughter of civilians in the western Sudanese region of Darfur...