Rally for Darfur
Administrator October 1st, 2007
Who: The Darfur Action Group of South Carolina
What: Rally bringing together state and local elected officials, community leaders, students and religious communities to bring attention to the crisis in Darfur.
Where: South Carolina State House steps
When: Saturday, October 6, 2007 at 2:00 PM
Why: It can help to save tens of thousands of innocent lives! The rally will press for support of United Nations Resolution 1769, authorizing a multinational peacekeeping force to provide humanitarian aid and security for refugees displaced by the fighting.
For more information, go to http://www.dagsc.org.
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History of the Conflict
Darfur is located in western Sudan, the largest country in Africa, and is about the size of Texas. Its population of 6 million is almost entirely Muslim. Since the initial conflict in February 2003, hundreds of farming villages, each with hundreds to thousands of inhabitants, have been burned to the ground. More than 400,000 people have died, each with a name and a life history. Over three million have fled to squalid refugee camps, where thousands more die each month of deprivation and disease.
The Darfur genocide has now entered a new phase. Since the majority of the villages have already been destroyed, the present focus of the Sudanese government is to keep the survivors in a threatened existence, which accelerates their final destruction. There is a deliberate attempt by the government to prevent adequate aid and security for these endangered innocents within the camps. It is these innocents, who are mostly women and children, which the international community has failed to protect.
On July 31, 2007, the United Nations Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 1769, which authorizes a multinational force of nearly 20,000 soldiers and 4,000 policemen to provide security. It also authorizes protection for aid convoys trying to deliver aid to the refugee camps. Previous such resolutions have been ignored by the government of Sudan.
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