Word: sudan
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...struggle between black farmers and the government-sponsored Arab militiamen has displaced 1.4 million people from the Darfur region of western Sudan...
...crisis across nations but disagreed both on who should take the lead in restoring peace and on what form that effort should take. “We need the Secretary-General to take the lead on this and be very clear on what our objectives are in Sudan,” said John Prendergast, special adviser to the president of the International Crisis Group...
...United States, many of whom sought legal protection under statutes originally gained by black struggle after 9/11 made them targets for racial discrimination, to reject this moral hypocrisy and stand up and condemn the inaction of the Arab League and participate in the movement to protect human life in Sudan...
...form of military force. Africans within the U.S., specifically African students, should be using their opportunity as U.S. citizens or residents to lobby the government for support for such ventures as well as raising overall awareness of the crisis. African students here at Harvard, for example, have Sudan currently running far behind the Red Sox and the Pring-Wilson trial in campus discourse...
...world and the future in mind. Since they sacrificed on behalf of black people, they expected that those who followed would do the same. It is beyond me how African students, at Harvard in particular, could fail to use their opportunity and power to raise the profile of Sudan across the campus, and even the nation as a whole. Those black students and activists who came before us understood that the prestige and power of Harvard must be leveraged for the benefit of others, not just ourselves. Black students are only here because of people that thought beyond themselves. That...