Darfur

Minnesota GOP chair Ron Carey calls Rep. Keith Ellison’s arrest during a Darfur protest Monday “unbecoming” of the office. But Ellison and his fellow protesters weren’t alone: Their action comes almost exactly three years after a similar set of arrests by Democratic legislators over the same issue – and nearly five years after a unanimous House vote declared the killing in Darfur “genocide.” Given the lack of change in Darfur, who can blame him for waiting around for more “becoming” methods?

Rep. Keith Ellison was among eight activists arrested Monday morning at a demonstration outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington. The event was held to protest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir’s decision to expel 16 international aid agencies from the country. Reps. John Lewis (D-GA), Jim McGovern (D-MA), Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) and Donna Edwards (D-MD) were also [...]

Have you always wanted to get involved in the anti-genocide movement for Darfur, but never had the time to write your elected officials?

You can now do that from the comfort of your home, thanks to a new, interactive hot line. The Genocide Intervention Network launched the hot line in February.

When you dial 1-800-Genocide, a sophisticated [...]

Rush Limbaugh is known for uttering creepy stuff, but what the nationally syndicated radio host said last week about the genocide-stricken Darfur region of Sudan was categorically bigoted and once again proved his disqualification to weigh in on foreign affairs.

Democrats, he said, “want to get us out of Iraq but they can’t wait to get [...]

For his master’s thesis in genocide studies, U.S. Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn., grappled with how education about genocide had failed. History classes had, rightly, incorporated thorough study of the Holocaust, he said, but “we did such a good job of teaching it that students tended to take it as an anomaly out of history, in [...]

The situation in Darfur is grim.

Former U.S. Senator Rudy Boschwitz laments that just 7,000 African Union troops are confronting the monumental task of averting genocide in a region of Sudan “about the size of Iraq… or Texas.” Meeting with the Minnesota Interfaith Darfur Coalition last week, the current UN Human Rights ambassador said, “We despair [...]

US politicians on both sides of the aisle have spoken out about the civil war in the Darfur region of Sudan that has killed some 400,000 people and displaced two million more — including a unanimous House vote that defined the violence as “genocide.” But in the two years since Congress spoke in that [...]