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Telly Savalas

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Thu Mar-24-05 07:48 PM
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Darfur (WARNING: Non-Schiavo Content)

Edited on Thu Mar-24-05 07:49 PM by Telly Savalas

Here's a flash presentation from Amnesty International's website:

http://www.amnesty.org/resources/flash/sudan/sdn-161104-animation-eng.html

Here's Human Rights Watch's page on the crisis:

http://hrw.org/doc?t=africa&c=darfur

We dropped the fucking ball with Rwanda 11 years ago. Let's not do it again.

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tubbacheez

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Thu Mar-24-05 07:53 PM
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1. I've written to my congressfolks and sent money to AIUSA.

Need more attention on this issue, though.

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DemBones DemBones

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Thu Mar-24-05 08:01 PM
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2. Thanks for the reminder of this crisis we might be able to stop.

The media, for the most part, have ignored Darfur.

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libpunkmom

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Thu Mar-24-05 08:28 PM
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3. Our government will probably not get involved in Darfur

or the Sudan. Due to the fact that the ICC is going to be in charge of all prosecutions against the individuals and groups who are committing the atrocities in those regions. The US government is so afraid of the ICC bringing any type of war crime charges against service members and cabinet members themselves that they passed American Service Members Protection Act. The US did not join the ICC because they thought that not joining would protect them from any type of prosecutions however they were wrong and that is why the ASPA was passed.

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