Word: sudan
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...true enemies of our values. Wire-tapping on American soil, torture in Iraq, lack of fair trials for detainees at Guantánamo, and qualms with the new UN Human Rights Council are the perfect examples that extremists like to quote. Al-Qaida, North Korea, Iran, and Sudan are beneficiaries of America’s impasses. To those radicals’ dismay, our ideals of human rights, freedom, and democracy do lead to a better world. And, in memory of the terrible Latin American decade, we must apply them uniformly and categorically, not merely as rhetoric leitmotifs. Memory requires bravery...
...have, however, realized that this logic is flawed—no utility calculus can negate the fact that Harvard’s money was linked with the ultimate evil of murder. Combined with Sinopec’s larger presence in Sudan that has developed in the past year, divestment from Sinopec was the only proper course of action. We applaud the University’s divestment. That it did so before considerable student pressure developed (although a petition drive was amassing signatures) is a particularly promising sign...
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...
...calls. Both our own judgment and Harvard’s precedent, however, make it clear that holding shares in Sinopec fell clearly on the side of divestment. Harvard’s endorsement of this position is reason for brief celebration before we recommit ourselves to ending the genocide in Sudan once...
...Qadhafi was not alone in his fears, according to the cable, which was provided to TIME by Judicial Watch, an investigative watchdog group. Umar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, Osama bin Laden's onetime refuge, also implored other Arab leaders to vouch for his lack of involvement in 9/11 and hold an Arab summit. The idea, apparently, was to try to show solidarity with the U.S. and other U.S.-friendly Arab regimes. "The Sudanese and Libyans sounded very afraid to their Egyptian and other interlocutors," the cable says. The Sudanese ambassador "had a quivering voice...