Darfur, we all should do what we can to help

[Gondorian]

Arabs are mass murdering Africans in Darfur. Africans do not deserve to die simply for having slightly darker skin, a different ethnicity and language.

This is rediculous, if it were Africans commiting Genocide against Arabs I garuntee you the UN would have sent an army in immediatly, but because the world doesn't care about Africans this genocide is being permitted to happen.

Anyone who demands Isreal and the United States recognize the Armenian Genocide without working to help the Africans is a Hypocrite with no honor or morale ground to make any demand.

Everyone should write an email to their representatives in Parlaiment, I am not sure if Armenian Government is the same as Greek, but any pressure on your government to do something is better then none.

I have already written to my representatives about Darfur and I suggest everyone here should do the same.

[Reincarnated Am]

http://armradio.am/news/?part=pol&id=4863

http://www.anca.org/action_alerts/actionalerts.php?aaid=89

http://www.armeniadirectory.com/news.php?cat_id=12&more=1&id=139&y=2006&m=2&d=4

http://www.aaainc.org/ArTW/article.php?articleID=1948

http://www.armeniandiaspora.com/archive/38543.html

http://www.armeniandiaspora.com/archive/35571.html

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/01/991cd849-fc9b-42d3-87e8-479c9efc5158.html

[Gavur]

You can stop the genocide

Posted on Wed, Mar. 08, 2006

Individuals must pressure governments to stop the slaughterTRUDY RUBINKnight Ridder NewspapersCan an individual do anything to stop a genocide?

Let's hope so, because governments aren't doing much. Two years after Sudan began a genocidal slaughter in Darfur province, the killing of black African Muslims by black Arab Muslims continues. No government seems willing or able to force Sudan to stop.
The Bush administration calls this killing by its rightful name -- genocide -- but has yet to use the kind of political muscle that might stop it.
So it is left to ordinary individuals to act. Think you can't do anything? Then listen to the words of former Marine Capt. Brian Steidle, who thinks you must. He photographed Darfur's horrors, and the images are driving him crazy. He wants a million Americans to write to President Bush and urge him to ensure that a strong multinational force is sent to Darfur.
Toothless observers
Steidle, 29, was one of three U.S. military observers assigned to the African Union (AU), which has a toothless force of 7,000 monitors in Darfur. The monitors are permitted only to observe a nonexistent cease-fire. Steidle went to this killing field in September 2004 armed only with a pen, pad and camera; he took more than 1,000 photos."We saw villages leveled, burned bodies, babies that had been shot, and all we could do was write reports and take pictures," he recalls.
The ex-Marine had no doubt who was to blame for the carnage, which has killed about 180,000 in the last three years and driven 2 million Darfurians from their homes. The Sudanese government, in an effort to crush Darfur rebels, sent in its army along with an Arab militia known as the janjaweed. Their goal: "cleanse" Darfur of its ethnic African population.
Steidle's reports to the AU disappeared down a black hole. So he quit in February 2005, went home, met the media, and found sympathetic legislators who displayed his photos. He even met senior Bush officials. "But I couldn't get the administration to listen," he says.
Screaming in a dream
Bush officials talk tough and give lots of aid, but their words have had little impact. The scale of mayhem has gone down -- though Steidle says 75 percent of south Darfur's villages have already been destroyed. Yet the janjaweed still kill, attack refugee camps, rape women and spread terror into neighboring Chad.
"For the last year, I've been banging my head against the wall," Steidle says. "It's like screaming in a dream, and no sound comes out." So he decided to approach the public directly. He wants you to lobby for a U.N. force that would protect civilians in Darfur.
He is touring 22 cities, in a campaign backed by Jewish, Armenian, mainstream Protestant, evangelical and other groups that will culminate in an anti-genocide demonstration April 30 in Washington. The goal: get 1 million Americans to send this message to the White House: "Dear President Bush: During your first year in the White House, you wrote in the margins of a report on the Rwandan genocide, `Not on my watch.' I urge you to live up to those words by using the power of your office to support a stronger multinational force to protect the civilians of Darfur."
Cynical opposition
To set up a robust force would require approval from the U.N. Security Council. The council would also have to authorize immediate help -- perhaps from NATO -- during the months it would take to set up a U.N. force.But Sudan is lobbying the Security Council to block a U.N. force. China, which buys Sudanese oil, is opposed, as are Russia and Qatar, the current Arab representative on the council. Arab solidarity apparently trumps the protection of African Muslims.
Khartoum has also persuaded the AU to back off its earlier willingness to hand over command to the U.N.; African solidarity apparently trumps saving African lives.
Sudan claims that a U.N. force will mean a Western takeover of the country, which should be resisted by Muslims, and might inspire attacks from al-Qaida. Muslims who demonstrated violently over cartoons have yet to show the same passion about the murder of Darfurian Muslims.
Those who oppose genocide can't accept such cynicism. Nor can global hostility to Bush be used as an excuse to let thousands more die.
What's needed now is grassroots pressure on the White House. Such pressure would demonstrate that there are people who refuse to tolerate genocide. Brian Steidle wants to show that one person can make a difference. But he can succeed only if, one by one, other Americans join in.
How To Help Darfur
Get information or send a message to the White House online at www.savedarfur.org. Contact the Save Darfur Coalition at 2120 L St. NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20037 or by phone at (202) 478-6132. Trudy
Rubin

[Gavur]

Darfur Terror Chief Slips Into Britain

Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor

The Observer (http://www.observer.co.uk/)
Sunday March 12, 2006

Foreign Office grants visa to top Sudan official despite UN sanctions

The man accused of being an architect of the genocide in Darfur,
Major-General Salah Abdullah Gosh, secretly visited London last week
to meet senior British officials.

The Foreign Office admitted it had issued a visa to Gosh, the head
of Sudan's National Security agency and the man accused of being a
key figure behind the counter-insurgency campaign that has claimed
the lives of tens of thousands.

While officials originally claimed the visa had been issued so Gosh
could undergo 'medical treatment', they added yesterday that he had
also met unnamed British officials for 'discussions on the Darfur
peace process'.

British officials are also understood to have discussed al-Qaeda with
Gosh, who knew Osama bin Laden in the Nineties. The admission that
Foreign Office officials met Gosh - who has been accused of having
recruited the janjaweed Arab militias responsible for most of the
abuses in Darfur - drew claims of British 'hypocrisy' from human
rights groups.

The Sudanese government has repeatedly denied any involvement in
recruiting and commanding the militias.

The visa was issued to Gosh to come to Britain for 'medical treatment'
after he was apparently refused re-entry to the United States, which
he visited last year for meetings with the CIA.

Gosh is number two on a widely leaked but unpublished United Nations
list of senior Sudanese officials who have been blamed by a UN panel
of experts for failing to prevent a campaign of widespread ethnic
cleansing in Darfur carried out by the janjaweed militias whom Gosh
is accused of directing.

The list forms the basis of a UN Security Council resolution that
would ban Gosh and others from international travel and freeze his
foreign assets.

Gosh's name is also understood to be on a second list, which is being
considered for referral on war crimes charges to the International
Criminal Court in The Hague.

His visit last week, during which he is understood also to have met
American officials, has outraged human rights campaigners, who, with
the US government, have accused the Sudanese government of prosecuting
'genocide' in Darfur.

The outrage comes not least because, as sponsor of the UN resolution,
the British government, along with other Security Council members,
has seen the list of Sudanese officials threatened with sanctions
over Darfur.

The three high-level Sudanese officials - including Gosh and
Interior Minister Zubair Bashir Taha - were placed on the 17-name
list because they failed to take appropriate action to carry out the
Sudanese government's commitment to disarm the janjaweed, who have
been attacking non-Arab villagers in Darfur, according to a report
to the UN by a panel of experts. The Khartoum government promised 18
months ago to disarm those militia, but has failed to do so.

As well as being held responsible for the Sudanese government's
counter-terrorism campaign in Darfur, which has resulted in the
displacement of two million people and the deaths of tens of thousands,
Gosh also gained notoriety when he acted as the Sudanese government's
liaison with Osama bin Laden, who was based in Sudan between 1990
and 1996.

It is for this latter reason that Gosh was flown by the CIA to
its headquarters in Langley, Virginia, last year in a private jet
before his presence in the US was leaked to the media. Inevitably,
this provoked outrage.

Gosh's visit to the UK comes at a time of continuing efforts to reach
a peace deal in the region. Last Friday, the African Union agreed to
extend its beleaguered peacekeeping mandate in Darfur for a further
six months. It also comes against the background of a worsening
security situation that - also last Friday - forced the office of
the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to announce that
it was cutting its aid efforts in Sudan by 40 per cent.

[Gondorian]

The British have much to answer for in the Darfur Genocide since it was them who handed over Sudan to the Arabs despite the fact that there was an overwhelming African Majority.

[Gavur]

Darfur Genocide Bill Seen As Too Little

UPI
Mar 21 2006

WASHINGTON, March 21 (UPI) -- A bill by U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill.,
aimed at stopping the genocide in Darfur, is yet to win total support
from the Co ngressional Black Caucus.

Hyde's bill, which has some 154 co-sponsors, would place financial
and travel sanctions on those involved in the Darfur fighting and
would authorize assistance to African Union forces trying to stop
the killing.

Some members of the CBC, however, appear to want a measure from
Rep. Donald Payne, D-N.J. That bill would go as far as to authorize
the U.S. government to "use all means necessary, including use of the
United States armed forces" to stop the killing in Darfur, The Hill,
a Capitol Hill newspaper, reported Tuesday.

The newspaper said the CBC has no formal position on Hyde's measure
but has supported Payne's. A spokesman for Rep. Bennie Thompson,
D-Miss., told The Hill Payne's measure is "the best approach" to
stopping the genocide.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the Darfur region
of western Sudan. The government there has been accused of carrying
out genocide against civilians.

[Gavur]

The World And Darfur

Daily News-Record
2006-04-18

On March 25 at a speech at Freedom House, President George Bush became
the only world leader to state plainly that the atrocities in Darfur
amount to genocide.

He then said it must be stopped and proposed allowing NATO to help
support the African Union's small force there.

Since that time, the world, the United Nations, the Muslim nations
and the African nations have done … nothing.

In fact, a few days after the president's speech, NATO head Jaap
de Hoop Scheffer said that "Africans feel very strongly" that they
should take care of problems on their own continent. So, he added,
one "should be careful" about imposing oneself on them. "There is not
yet the need for declaring a willingness for [NATO] to participate."

No doubt Africans should take care of their own problems but,
as columnist Nat Hentoff notes, more than 300,000 Darfur Africans
have been killed in the conflict and more than 2 million displaced,
so there does appear to be something lacking in the African response.

Many Muslim nations â€" upset about some cartoons published in an
obscure Danish newspaper â€" called in the Danish ambassador and
began a boycott of Danish goods. Yet no Muslim nation has called in
the Sudanese ambassador to protest the genocide in that country.

A coalition of more than 160 faith-based, human-rights and humanitarian
organizations is holding a Save Darfur rally on Sunday, April 30
in Washington D.C., to remind the world that the genocide should
be stopped.

It is time the world â€" and NATO, the United Nations and the Muslim
nations â€" listened to them.

[Gavur]

The article did not mention Turkey I dont think they cosider it a Muslim since the goverment has always been known as secular backed by military I think their refering to nations UNDER Islam which Turkey is just recently becoming and trying to be a major player in.

[TurQ]

But Turkey is a muslim country and current representative of the confrence of islamic countries is Turkey and represented by "Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu"

And there are no islamic countries in real, I wouldnt call Saudi arabia an Islamic country, just a bedioun run kingdom, or Iran just a persian nationalist Shia country, pursueing only their national and secterial ambitions

The article did not mention Turkey I dont think they cosider it a Muslim since the goverment has always been known as secular backed by military I think their refering to nations UNDER Islam which Turkey is just recently becoming and trying to be a major player in.

[1.5 million]

Obviously Armenian diaspora is using these events for propoganda purposes, I have never heard of any Armenian help towards the people of Darfur, but just talk and use those events for their political purposes.

Again FU!