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WHAT CAN BE DONE TO SAVE DARFUR? SUSAN RICE, ASSISTANT Secretary of State for Africa during the Clinton years and an adviser to John Kerry, criticizes the Administration for not "taking action consonant with the magnitude of the catastrophe." At the same time, Rice acknowledges, "I don't think there's a huge difference" between Kerry and Bush on how to handle Sudan. Neither candidate advocates sending U.S. troops to Africa to end the fighting. The Administration's current strategy is to "calibrate" the pressure on Sudan's government, until it fully disarms the Janjaweed. But human-rights observers...
...more than a year, as the violence in Darfur has escalated, the world has stood by. Since the start of the Bush Administration, U.S. policy toward Sudan has been focused on ending the country's long-running war in the south, which has killed more than 2 million people. Prodded to take action by an unlikely alliance of the religious right and the Congressional Black Caucus, Bush appointed former Missouri Senator John Danforth as a special peace envoy to Sudan and pressured Khartoum and the southern rebels to put down their weapons. But just as a peace deal looked imminent...
Congressional leaders and some members of the Administration have tried recently to make up for lost time by denouncing the killing in Darfur. Despite Powell's statement, however, there are disagreements within the Administration and between the U.S. and its allies over whether the violence against Darfur's Africans amounts to genocide--and about what to do to stop it. In August a mission from the European Union to Sudan concluded that the killings fell short of genocide, which is defined by the convention as a deliberate attempt to kill or seriously hurt a group of people "to bring about...
Enter George W. Bush. At the U.N. last week, Bush spoke, unusually, of an ongoing "genocide" in Darfur, Sudan. The President was drawing on an investigation carried out by the State Department. When Secretary of State Colin Powell delivered a formal finding of genocide to Congress on Sept. 9, he was doing something no senior U.S. official had done before. "When we reviewed the evidence," Powell said, "we concluded--I concluded--that genocide has been committed in Darfur and that the government of Sudan and the Janjaweed bear responsibility and that genocide may still be occurring...
...horrors in Darfur are just what Lemkin had in mind. Sudan's government and its Janjaweed militias are systematically expelling Darfur's non-Arab population, murdering tens of thousands and permitting widespread gang rape--to make what they say will be lighter-skinned babies and ensure that the non-Arab tribes will be too degraded to return to their homes...