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...Hillary M. Mucheru ’07 joined featured guest speaker Simon Deng in demanding that local universities and city and state governments cut financial ties with the regime that has been accused by the United Nations of waging a genocidal campaign against inhabitants of Sudan??s Darfur region...
Deng also said that divestment was one of the more effective strategies for taking on Sudan??s government, as he dismissed the role of the United Nations, which he felt would not confront the regime. The war has been described as a confrontation between an Arab governing elite and black minority...
...January of this year, BP Amoco sold its $1.65 billion stake in PetroChina. The move came on the heels of a four-year campaign by black churches and human rights groups in the U.S. to boycott Amoco stations in protest of BP’s links to Sudan??although BP’s decision to drop the shares was likely made due to economic considerations and not humanitarian concerns...
Womack, who holds the Bliss chair in Latin American history and economics, wrote in an e-mail Friday that “what’s happening in Sudan??as in some other parts of the world—is by all accounts awful.” But he said that “it’s not genocide, and it doesn’t threaten continental, or much less intercontinental, warfare...
...militiamen to squash the revolt. Since August of 2003, however, these Arab militiamen, known as the Janjaweed or “devils on horseback,” have used the weapons and support afforded to them to conduct genocidal ethnic cleansing and land grabs at the expense of Sudan??s black Africans...