Rwanda, Take II
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ysobelleAnd, as before, our government does nothing. I wouldn't be so angry, I think, were it not that this President has made such a screaming point about America being the world's police, and loudly proclaimed that we stood for peace and justice all over the globe.
Well, where's the peace and justice now, Mr. Bush?
http://www.itv.com/news/846086.html
Sudan emergency aid appeal under way
11.44PM, Wed Jul 21 2004
A new appeal for emergency aid has been launched as the humanitarian crisis in Sudan continues to escalate.
A million people have been forced to leave their homes in the Darfur region of Sudan because of civil war.
They are living in desert camps over the border in neighbouring Chad and are desperately in need of food and clean water.
The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), representing the UK's leading international aid agencies, is aiming to raise desperately needed cash.
Government-backed militia known as the Janjaweed are accused of carrying out the mass rape of women and young girls. Around 30,000 people are believed to have been murdered.
Amnesty International has said that testimonies from refugees show that the attacks are occurring on a massive scale.
To make a donation visit the DEC website at www.dec.org.uk, telephone 0870 60 60 900 or send a cheque/postal order made payable to: DEC Sudan Emergency, PO BOX 999, London EC3.
"Women and girls are being killed, raped and gang-raped, raped in public, abducted, tortured and forced into sexual slavery," Amnesty said.
A DEC spokeswoman said: "The scale of people's suffering in Sudan is immense and is getting worse. People have lost family members, been driven from their homes and lost everything they own.
The DEC charities appealing for help are British Red Cross, CAFOD, CARE International UK, Christian Aid, Concern, Help the Aged, Merlin, Oxfam, Save the Children, Tearfund and World Vision.
Yesterday, a human rights organisation accused the Sudanese government of arming and supporting the militia.
Human Rights Watch's director Kenneth Roth said: "We can no longer trust Khartoum to police itself when Khartoum is part of a large problem. It's like the fox guarding the chicken coop."
"We in no sense contest Sudanese government efforts to suppress that rebellion.
"The way the Sudanese government had chosen to try to suppress the rebellion is by attacking any member of the two ethnic groups that have given rise to the scorched earth policy."
Well, where's the peace and justice now, Mr. Bush?
http://www.itv.com/news/846086.html
Sudan emergency aid appeal under way
11.44PM, Wed Jul 21 2004
A new appeal for emergency aid has been launched as the humanitarian crisis in Sudan continues to escalate.
A million people have been forced to leave their homes in the Darfur region of Sudan because of civil war.
They are living in desert camps over the border in neighbouring Chad and are desperately in need of food and clean water.
The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), representing the UK's leading international aid agencies, is aiming to raise desperately needed cash.
Government-backed militia known as the Janjaweed are accused of carrying out the mass rape of women and young girls. Around 30,000 people are believed to have been murdered.
Amnesty International has said that testimonies from refugees show that the attacks are occurring on a massive scale.
To make a donation visit the DEC website at www.dec.org.uk, telephone 0870 60 60 900 or send a cheque/postal order made payable to: DEC Sudan Emergency, PO BOX 999, London EC3.
"Women and girls are being killed, raped and gang-raped, raped in public, abducted, tortured and forced into sexual slavery," Amnesty said.
A DEC spokeswoman said: "The scale of people's suffering in Sudan is immense and is getting worse. People have lost family members, been driven from their homes and lost everything they own.
The DEC charities appealing for help are British Red Cross, CAFOD, CARE International UK, Christian Aid, Concern, Help the Aged, Merlin, Oxfam, Save the Children, Tearfund and World Vision.
Yesterday, a human rights organisation accused the Sudanese government of arming and supporting the militia.
Human Rights Watch's director Kenneth Roth said: "We can no longer trust Khartoum to police itself when Khartoum is part of a large problem. It's like the fox guarding the chicken coop."
"We in no sense contest Sudanese government efforts to suppress that rebellion.
"The way the Sudanese government had chosen to try to suppress the rebellion is by attacking any member of the two ethnic groups that have given rise to the scorched earth policy."
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Two Words
Date: 2004-07-26 06:04 pm (UTC)