Save Dafur Sends Letter to Bush and Moon (LINK)
October 23rd 2007 19:16
Here's the text of the letter:
As many as 400,000 people have been killed in Darfur. Another 2.5 million have been driven from their homes and into danger. The threat of rape, torture, murder and malnutrition pursue the women and children of Darfur wherever they flee. World leaders must unite now to end the genocide and establish a lasting peace in Darfur.
I therefore ask you to:
1. Make ending the crisis in Darfur one of your top priorities;
2. Push for the fastest possible deployment of the hybrid U.N.-A.U. peacekeeping force authorized by the U.N. Security Council in July;
3. Pressure contributing nations to fully and immediately meet their pledges of troops, funding, equipment, and logistical support;
4. Work to ensure the Sudanese government's full participation in a just and inclusive peace process, and to overcome any attempts to obstruct or delay the protection of civilians or the peace process;
5. Increase humanitarian aid and ensure access for its safe delivery.
Thank you for your leadership on this urgent matter.
It's really easy to participate in this. And if you look through the website, along the right side, there is a box at the bottom in which you can send this to both Bush and UN Sec Gen Moon.
Also, just check out the Save Dafur website if you have not done it yet. Very sad, and It will make you very angry that the US can spend so much money in Iraq and Afghanistan, but ignore something like Dafur. I mean, come on, there is oil there...and need for infrastructure, so where is Halliburton and other war profiteers when you actually need them?
As many as 400,000 people have been killed in Darfur. Another 2.5 million have been driven from their homes and into danger. The threat of rape, torture, murder and malnutrition pursue the women and children of Darfur wherever they flee. World leaders must unite now to end the genocide and establish a lasting peace in Darfur.
I therefore ask you to:
1. Make ending the crisis in Darfur one of your top priorities;
2. Push for the fastest possible deployment of the hybrid U.N.-A.U. peacekeeping force authorized by the U.N. Security Council in July;
3. Pressure contributing nations to fully and immediately meet their pledges of troops, funding, equipment, and logistical support;
4. Work to ensure the Sudanese government's full participation in a just and inclusive peace process, and to overcome any attempts to obstruct or delay the protection of civilians or the peace process;
5. Increase humanitarian aid and ensure access for its safe delivery.
Thank you for your leadership on this urgent matter.
It's really easy to participate in this. And if you look through the website, along the right side, there is a box at the bottom in which you can send this to both Bush and UN Sec Gen Moon.
Also, just check out the Save Dafur website if you have not done it yet. Very sad, and It will make you very angry that the US can spend so much money in Iraq and Afghanistan, but ignore something like Dafur. I mean, come on, there is oil there...and need for infrastructure, so where is Halliburton and other war profiteers when you actually need them?
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