Just came across this and didn't see anything on this site...
WASHINGTON - 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 Human Rights Caucus, said from the embassy steps before his arrest.
Four other Democratic Congress members -- James McGovern and John Olver of Massachusetts, Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas and Jim Moran of Virginia -- were among 11 protesters arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly, a misdemeanor subject to a fine.
Link
So the protesters called on the Sudanese government to accept a U.N. peacekeeping force in Darfur and allow humanitarian relief organizations full access to victims.
I'm not sure if that is such a great idea. I was listening to a debate on this yesterday and they were saying what do you do one a UN helicopter get's shot down, or a peace keeper get's killed?
I don't know. I haven't seen too much discussion on this on this board lately on this topic. What do you all think of a UN involvement, and possibly US involvement?
It is genocide, and I do believe the state department has said as much.
(I apologize for the week diary, just wanted to post this news and wrote this in haste)