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...CCSR’s statement, “substantial revenue from Sudan’s oil production has gone toward the purchase of weapons.” The Sudanese government has armed the Janjaweed militiamen who have slaughtered tens of thousands of villagers in the western region of Darfur...
Summers said last month that the crisis in Darfur “is in many ways the major moral issue of our moment.” Yet he repeatedly referred questions on divestment to the CCSR...
...What seems to me most important, though, is the statement that Harvard has made about the seriousness of what’s happening in Darfur,” Summers said...
...holdings in PetroChina first sparked an uproar in October, Summers consulted with Michael Ignatieff, director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, and Samantha Power, a Kennedy School lecturer who has helped to expose the ongoing genocide in Sudan’s western region of Darfur...
Campus student groups that sponsored the demonstration included Amnesty International, the Darfur Action Group, the Harvard Black Students Association, the Harvard Black Men’s Forum, the Association of Black Harvard Women, BGLTSA, Fuerza Latina, the Harvard AIDS Coalition, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association, according to Wynn.a