Saturday, June 30, 2007

Keep attention on crisis in Darfur

Please continue to help the public express concern for the crisis in Darfur. With your publication continuing to bring these issues to light you can help contribute to its end.

Though news reports of Sudan’s latest agreement to allow a United Nations-African Union hybrid peacekeeping force into Darfur seem like a positive development, there is considerable reason to be skeptical.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has failed to live up to his past commitments to the international community, including a similar agreement in 2006.

Any regime that would bomb its own villages and kill as many as 400,000 of its own people does not deserve the benefit of the doubt.

Sudan’s air force continues to bomb villages, and the government-sponsored Janjaweed militia units have not relented in their horrific attacks. Read more >>>>>

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