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Subject: Justice in Darfur WakeUp Call! (Please Distribute Widely)
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Dear MWU! Friends:
Please forward this message to as many friends and colleagues as possible.
Let's get this message heard loud and clear.
Peace,
Ahmed Nassef
Editor-in-Chief, MWU!
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http://www.muslimwakeup.com/mainarchive/2004/07/000959print.php
Send a WakeUp Call to the Sudanese government (click on the link below):
http://muslimwakeup.com/formmail/darfur.php
End the Agony, Stop the War Criminals: Justice for Darfur
By Ahmed Nassef
This is not the time to argue about semantics. The horrors that are taking
place in the Darfur region in Western Sudan speak for themselves, and they must
be stopped.
According to human rights organizations, up to 30,000 people have been killed,
thousands more have been raped and hundreds of thousands displaced from their
homes at the hands of marauding government-supported gangs. The ugly campaign
has been fueled by bigotry against the predominantly Muslim African population
of the area by self-identifying ?Arab? militias, knows as the Janjaweed.
Surely, the problems that led to the current crisis are complex. As a UN report
pointed out last year, ?in Darfur, where the vast majority of people are
Muslims and Arabic-speaking, the distinction between ?Arab? and ?African? is
more cultural than racial.? Yet sadly, as the world witnessed in Rwanda,
hatred, greed and the thirst for power are stubborn enemies of truth and
compassion. Still, the Sudanese government?s claims of innocence ring
exceedingly hollow.
There is little doubt that the rabid violence has been directly orchestrated by
the Sudanese government. The Sudanese government began recruiting the militias
last year, has supplied them with weapons, and has provided military air
support, which has included the bombing of dozens of villages. Some of the
reported commanders of the campaign are still roaming freely in Sudan?s
capital, Khartoum.
What?s more, Human Rights Watch announced today that it has obtained official
Sudanese government documents that ?illustrate the involvement, at the highest
levels, of the state bureaucracy in the recruitment and arming of militia and
the authorization of their activities that have resulted in crimes against
humanity and war crimes.?
Based on numerous eyewitness accounts, Amnesty International reports that ?men
have been killed inside mosques, women raped in front of their husbands and old
women killed when their homes have been set alight ? all acts designed to
humiliate and destroy the fabric of community life, over and beyond the
individual atrocity.?
As Muslims and members of the larger human family, we call on the Sudanese
government to:
-- Disarm, disband and withdraw all government-supported militia operating in
Darfur
-- Identify and prosecute all government officials and militia members
responsible for war crimes in Darfur
-- Ensure full access for humanitarian efforts to assist and repatriate the
displaced people of Darfur; and
-- Ensure full access for international human rights monitors
Please join us in calling on the Sudanese government to end its genocidal
campaign in Darfur. Send a WakeUp Call Email Now: End the Agony, Stop the War
Criminals: Justice for Darfur (just click on this link)
http://muslimwakeup.com/formmail/darfur.php
Please continue reading for additional resources on the Darfur crisis.
Additional Resources:
The following agencies are providing humanitarian assistance to the displaced
Darfurian victims both within Sudan and in neighboring Chad. Please consider
giving generously.
CARE
151 Ellis Street NE
Atlanta, GA 30303-2440
United States
Phone: 1-800-521-CARE ext. 999
Online at: http://www.careusa.org
Doctors Without Borders-Holland (Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF-H)
Doctors Without Borders-France (MSF-F):
Please contact MSF?s New York office at 1-888-392-0392 or online at
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org
International Committee of the Red Cross
19 avenue de la Paix
1202 Geneva, Switzerland
Online at: http://www.icrc.org
International Rescue Committee
122 East 42nd Street
New York, NY 10168
United States
Phone: 212-551-3000
Online at: http://www.theirc.org
Save the Children-US
Attn: Donor Services
54 Wilton Road
Westport, CT 06880
Phone: 1-800-728-3843
Online at: http://www.savethechildren.org
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
c/o USA for UNHCR
1775 K Street, NW Suite 290
Washington, DC 20006
United States
Phone: 1-800-770-1100
Online at: http://www.usaforunhcr.org
UNICEF (United Nations Children?s Fund)
c/o U.S. Fund for UNICEF
333 East 38th Street
New York, NY 10016
United States
Online at: http://www.unicefusa.org
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