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This weekend, the Harold Parker State Forest of North Andover, Mass. will be turned into a Darfur refugee camp. The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) and the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University are jointly hosting an educational exercise to simulate the issues surrounding emergency refugee areas in the war-torn state. Participants in the event will create a service plan for the simulation that addresses sanitation, medical care, and transportation routes, according to a press release. Project Manager Sarah Appleby said participants are required to undergo a “two-week-long intensive, didactic training process?...
...Ateya Elteyb, director of the Peace Research Institute at Khartoum University, says the government has been unable to maintain its hard line in the face of the growing number of outside influences arriving in the country as a result of its oil boom, and also because of the Darfur crisis. "Now we have more and more foreigners and investors, there's a new thing happening very slowly as the government relaxes because of these groups," he says. "I don't know if it's good or bad, but the repressive element is going...
...Alexander Litvinenko, but there are signs that China is warming to Brown. He speaks regularly to the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, has offered to help facilitate dialogue with the Dalai Lama, and is also lobbying the Chinese to put pressure on Sudan to accept the deployment of peacekeepers in Darfur...
...officials also warned that government supporters were violently evicting opposition supporters from their homes in Manicaland province. "The violence has now spread throughout the province. It's a disaster, that's how the Darfur crisis started," Patrick Chitaka, the MDC chairman in Manicaland said. "We have reports of systematic violence against our supporters. Apart from beating up people, they are now burning houses. We are going to have thousands of internally displaced people if the situation is not contained fast...
...done.” Obama is implying America should bear as much responsibility for the security of citizens in a country we do not occupy as one we do. That is, none at all.The irony is that Senator Obama has been a strong advocate of international intervention in Darfur, where a genocide has been raging since 2003. In 2006, Obama made a passionate defense of the use of the term genocide to describe the conflict. “When 300,000 people have been killed, 2 million displaced, I think that that is the kind of disaster that merits world...