[Peace-discuss] Fwd: S. 495 Bill on Darfur Needs Your Support

[Al Kagan]

See 
http://capwiz.com/africaaction/issues/alert/?alertid=7187406&type=CO to 
take action on Sudan.  The  message sent to Durbin and Obama is below.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Africa Action" <akagan at uiuc.edu>
> Date: March 10, 2005 11:38:35 AM CST
> To: "Africa Action" <akagan at uiuc.edu>
> Subject: S. 495 Bill on Darfur Needs Your Support
>
> Thank you for using Africa Action Mail System
>
> Message sent to the following recipients:
> Senator Durbin
> Senator Obama
> Message text follows:
>
> Alfred Kagan
> 310 W. Hill St., #1E
> Champaign, IL 61820
>
>
> March 10, 2005
>
> [recipient address was inserted here]
>
>
> Dear [recipient name was inserted here],
>
> Six months ago, President Bush declared the crisis in Darfur to be
> “genocide”, six weeks after an earlier congressional resolution to that
> effect. Unfortunately, since that time very little has been done to 
> stop
> the violence and protect the people in Darfur and the genocide 
> continues.
> I am pleased to hear that Congress is again showing leadership on this
> crisis with S. 495, the Darfur Accountability Act, which is now
> circulating for signatures. This important resolution helps to draw
> attention to the on-going genocide in Darfur, and urges action.  Please
> co-sponsor the Darfur Accountability Act, S 495.
>
> S. 495 calls on the Administration to “engage in a concerted, sustained
> campaign with other members of the United Nations Security Council and
> relevant countries with the aim of achieving the goals described (in 
> the
> act).” These goals include imposing sanctions on the Government of 
> Sudan,
> establishing a military no-fly zone in Darfur, and expanding the size 
> and
> strength of the African Union force in Darfur in order to stop the
> violence and protect the people in Darfur.  While these are all 
> important
> goals, this resolution could be strengthened by urging the U.S. to 
> seek a
> UN resolution that would:
>
> * Provide the African Union force in Darfur with a Chapter 7 mandate 
> under
> the UN Charter to protect the civilians of Darfur and to enforce a
> cease-fire.
>
> * Expand this force by soliciting military personnel and logistical,
> communications & financial support from UN member nations to form a UN
> peacekeeping operation to incorporate and support the AU troops under
> Chapter 7.
>
> This is the most appropriate and effective way to support the AU, and 
> it
> is the best way to stop the ongoing genocide.
>
>
>
> I look forward to your action on this issue. Ten years after the 
> Rwandan
> genocide, we must not repeat mistakes of the past. I urge you to pass a
> strong resolution that will help end the genocide in Darfur.  Our 
> silence
> on this issue will be our complicity in the deaths of those in Darfur,
> Sudan. Please take all action necessary to stop the genocide.
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> Alfred Kagan
> 217 351-9035
>
>
>

Al Kagan
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61820
USA

tel. 217-333-6519
fax 217-333-2214
akagan at uiuc.edu
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