Genocide in Sudan

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Since early 2003, tens of thousands of Sudanese citizens of African descent who live in the Darfur region have been systematically killed, raped, and displaced as their villages have been destroyed. Through coordinated land and air attacks; the burning of homes and crops; the rounding up of livestock; the destruction of wells, granaries, and irrigation works; the uprooting of trees; and the theft of all possessions, the government of Sudan and the government-supported Arab militia, Janjaweed, have displaced more than 1 million people.

http://www.alternet.org/story/19147/

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https://www.phrusa.org/phrsecure/donate_sudan.php

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1. Yesterday, on Fresh Air

(I was busy working so I missed most if it) a man was talking about the Sudan mess and he said the most profound thing. After the Holocaust and the Rwandan massacres people used as a rallying cry "Never again" but he thought that when we say that the time to act is already gone. He said that the better statement was "Not this time!" What a world this could be if we stood up and said, "Not this time, will you be allowed to slaughter innocents (or start illegal wars or steal elections, etc.)"