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    In Darfur, a region in western Sudan approximately the size of Texas, over a million people are threatened with torture and death at the hands of marauding militia and a complicit government. Genocide evokes not only the moral, but also, the legal responsibility of the world community. Under international agreement, a nation must intervene to stop a genocide when it is officially acknowledged.

    "Officially" is the key word here. So far, no nation in the international community has "officially" acknowledged the truth: Sudan is a bleeding ground of genocide. In this void, the Sudanese government continues to act with brutal impunity.

    Thankfully, there are individuals working in human rights organizations who are watching - and witnessing - and organizing, in support of the victims in Darfur. These individuals represent, for all of us, a personal capacity to bear witness to the passion of the present; one candle lit against the darkness.

    However, before one can light a candle, someone has to strike a match: a donation to any of the human rights organizations active in Sudan, contacting your government representative, local newspaper, radio and t.v. station. Our individual activism is essential for the candlepower of witness to overcome and extinguish the firepower of genocide.

    This world has long endured wars that take lives. Let us be part of one that saves them.

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« Don't lose hope for the children of Darfur Sudan | Main | Petition to UN Security Council asking Kofi Annan to resign, after his failure to stop the genocide in Darfur Sudan »

November 10, 2004

Petition to ask Kofi Annan to resign, after his failure to stop the genocide in Darfur Sudan

Ingrid, I agree with you that a petition asking Kofi Annan to resign, now that he has failed in Sudan, would be an appropriate way to communicate with the Security Council in advance of the meeting in Africa.  We can use forwardtrack, though it is focused on the US.  Tomorrow I will contact eyebeam and see if we can get a global version working..

http://forwardtrack.eyebeamresearch.org/

Can we start drafting the petition now, assuming that by tomorrow we will have a place for it? Short and sweet is perhaps best, and easy for folks to decide to sign..what do you want to say?

thanks, thanks, Jim

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