The
Genocide Intervention Network recognizes the Bush Administration's leadership on resolving the 21-year civil war between the Sudanese government and southern Sudan, while
imploring the president to make a similar moral commitment to ending the genocide in the western region of Darfur.
Innocent people in Darfur are not protected. High-level attention from the White House will end the genocide.
While the president noted the compassion shown to "a refugee fleeing genocide" in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, he chose not to outline the concrete policies necessary to translate that compassion into human security for Darfurians.
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The president must follow his words with action," says GI-Net Chief Executive Mark Hanis. "He must introduce a UN Security Council resolution giving the peacekeepers in Darfur the mandate to protect lives, he must ask Congress to restore funding to the peacekeeping force, and he must revoke the license of Khartoum's personal lobbyist."
The situation in Darfur has continued to deteriorate since declarations of genocide by President Bush and the U.S. Congress in 2004. The United Nations reported that from October to November 2005, the number of civilian deaths in Darfur nearly doubled.
A poll in the summer of 2005 by PIPA-Knowledge Networks revealed that more than seven in ten Americans felt the United States should take an active role in supporting the peacekeeping force in Darfur.
The Genocide Intervention Network works to mobilize an anti-genocide constituency in the United States and Canada to raise the costs for inaction by politicians in the face of genocide. Accessible online at GenocideIntervention.net, GI-Net empowers its members with the tools to support initiatives that prevent and stop genocidal violence, in particular by protecting civilians in Darfur, Sudan.
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