Wednesday, November 19, 2008

FACT #1:
Darfur has been going on since 2003 and no one has done anything significant about it.

FACT #2:
In Darfur, about 5,000 people die everyday and thousands are being misplaced from thier homes.

FACT #3:
The government sponsored, janjaweed, have raped, displaced, organized starvation and mass murdered people.

FACT #4:
The International community has made a peace deal but in its wake has actually increased the violence.

FACT #5:
The current genocide seems to be based around ethnicity and tribes rather than religion.

FACT #6:
The Sudanese government has been accused of jailing and killing witnesses and destroying evidence since 2004.

FACT #7:
The United States has recognized the conflict going on in Darfur as genocide but the United Nations have still not used that kind of language to describe it.

FACT #8:
The International Criminal Court filed 10 charges of war crimes against the President of Sudan in 2008.

FACT #9:
None of the resolutions set up by the Security Council have been implemented into action.

FACT #10:
If the President of Sudan is formally charged, he will become the first head of state charged with genocide.

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