Reply #13: Sudan Genocide Continues; Protesters on the March

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June 30, 2004

Sudan Genocide Continues; Protesters on the March
by Keith Peters, Washington, D.C., correspondent


Calls come for end to abuse and genocide in the Sudan.

There were protests in Washington recently aimed at the government of Sudan. Protesters charged the Khartoum government with continuing genocide against its own people. About 100 demonstrators marched outside the Sudanese embassy in northwest Washington, D.C., calling for an end to the genocide they say is going on in the Darfur region right now.

One of the protestors, Nina Shea of Freedom House, said this is the same type of "scorched earth" policy that Khartoum used for over a decade in Southern Sudan, where two million African Christians died.

"The government (has been) withholding food aid — internationally donated food aid — after they've driven the people off the land through militias to create a situation of mass starvation," Shea said.

She said tens of thousands have already died this year in the western Darfur region, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is predicting that a million more will perish if the abuse doesn't stop.

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