Filed at 12:30 pm, Wednesday September 27th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
After the Rwandan genocide in 1994 occurred, some speculated that the reason why President Clinton’s Administration hadn’t termed it genocide was that if they had, they would be compelled to act through the United Nations to intervene in the tragedy. A decade later in 2004, the Bush Administration, led by then-Secretary of State Colin Powell […]
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Filed at 12:30 pm, Wednesday August 30th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Somebody recently suggested that the United Nations has failed as a global organization because of the situation in Darfur and the fact that it hasn’t been stopped by the UN. I should really write more about Darfur on this blog. The following is what I replied.
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While I certainly agree with your belief that more should […]
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Filed at 9:30 am, Saturday August 12th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
AP:
The U.N. said [recently] that the May 5 peace deal, signed between Sudan’s government and Darfur’s main rebel group, was “doomed to failure” unless the government provided more support.
“It’s going from real bad to catastrophic in Darfur,” Jan Egeland told reporters at the U.N.’s European headquarters in Geneva.
Fighting has actually increased since the peace deal, […]
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Filed at 4:30 pm, Tuesday May 16th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Democratic Representative John Lewis (from Georgia) silently waits to be read his rights.
Another noble group of Congressmen today have been arrested by the Secret Service in front of the Sudan Embassy in Washington, peacefully protesting about Darfur. No surprise: not a single one of them is a Republican (again). This brings the total to 12 […]
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Filed at 10:30 pm, Friday May 05th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
There’s talk of peace in Darfur. I’m skeptical, but we can always hope.
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Filed at 6:30 pm, Friday April 28th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Associated Press reports:
Five Congress members were willingly arrested and led away from the Sudanese Embassy in plastic handcuffs Friday in protest of the Sudanese government’s role in atrocities in the Darfur region.
“The slaughter of the people of Darfur must end,” Rep. Tom Lantos (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., a Holocaust survivor who founded the Congressional […]
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Filed at 7:22 pm, Wednesday February 22nd 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Sorry about the lack of real posts today. Unfortunately it’s been (and continues to be) quite busy in terms of class related work. Posting will be back to normal tomorrow, but in the meantime, I’d encourage you to check out the following recent posts:
Darfur for Dummies
Darfur: Let’s put this in context
Darfur: An inconvenient […]
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Filed at 9:27 pm, Tuesday February 21st 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Darfur. And no, not the Darfur in Minnesota, either.
Earlier today, I wrote posts explaining the situation in Darfur, and explaining the historical context of the Darfur tragedy, which is very important. I promised in both of them that I’d be writing a post looking at the White House’s response to the genocide. This is that […]
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Filed at 6:30 pm, Tuesday February 21st 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Earlier today, I posted an entry called Darfur for Dummies. Go read it if you haven’t already. At the end of that item, I promised that later today, I’d write a followup, examining the Bush Administration’s response to the crisis in Darfur. Before I post that, I thought we’d put Darfur in its proper historical […]
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Filed at 10:34 am, Tuesday February 21st 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Allow me to make a confession. I heard that there was some ‘thing’ going on in a place called ‘Darfur’ quite a while back. For one reason or another, I never read up on it. I guess nobody presented me with a simple explanation of what the ‘thing’ was going on in this place I’d […]
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Filed at 1:38 pm, Monday February 20th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Sign the Darfur petition. The President recently said that more troops are needed in Darfur to keep the peace. Help pressure the White House into actually taking action, instead of just talking.
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