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...central feature of the Darfur conflict: That it is a genocide. Genocidal perpetrators, according to the 1948 Genocide Convention, harbor “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.” Gulay describes the wars in Sudan and Iraq as “illegal” actions in which “state-sponsored militias and killing squads swoop down into villages andravage them.” He suggests, albeit without evidence, that both the Sudanese andthe Americans fight “merely to avenge past wrongs...
This scenario, of a grave humanitarian crisis on the scale of an international emergency, can clearly describe what is happening in the Darfur region of Sudan, and it is certainly laudable that a group of Harvard students have recently begun a divestment campaign to pull University funds from investments in that country. But the portrayal above more closely describes the situation in Iraq, where American and Iraqi troops are busy uprooting and destroying entire regions of the country. Unlike the crisis in Sudan, the deaths and destruction in Iraq are the intimate responsibility of the U.S., which means that...
...petition to divest University funds from companies that do business in Sudan makes the point that Harvard should not invest in any company that does business in Sudan “for as long as Sudan is in violation of international norms of human rights.” It is quite clear that our own country is in severe violation of all decent standards of human rights and the rules of war, and it is our responsibility to bring attention to this fact. Before we as Americans can preach peace and reconciliation to the world, we must make sure...
...week marked the 20th anniversary of the original release of Do They Know It's Christmas?, and Geldof's resurrection of the song - featuring contemporary stars like Robbie Williams and Chris Martin from Coldplay - comes out in Europe this week. Proceeds will again help starving Africans, especially those in Sudan's Darfur region, where fighting between rebels and government-backed militias has left 70,000 dead and more than 2 million homeless in what Washington calls genocide. The new version of the song is mellower than the original, but the lyrics are the same: In Africa this Christmas, "the only...
China's stepped-up efforts have already created some friction. Earlier this year ONGC Videsh, the overseas-investment arm of India's largest oil and gas producer, was on the verge of completing a deal for an 11% stake in a proven oil field in Sudan when China's CNPC swooped in with an offer reportedly 17% higher--and snatched the deal away. "The Chinese are definitely very aggressive in the price they are willing to pay," says R.S. Butola, managing director of ONGC Videsh. Beijing has demonstrated that it is willing to face down international pressure to protect...