Thousands of protesters rally against genocide
WASHINGTON - Peace talks aimed at ending the ”genocide” in Darfur faltered last Tuesday, just days after thousands of protesters rallied in Washington for beefed up measures to help the people of the Sudanese region.
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African Union troops have been attempting, with little success, to act as peacekeepers in the the Sudanese region. Many Western organizations and government officials have called for the United Nations or NATO forces to augment the beleaguered African Union peacekeepers.
If the peace talks fail, then Darfur will almost certainly be in for more misery. „Nobody will look good, but the real victims will be the people on the ground”, said Sam Ibok, head of the union’s mediation team. „They will not be able to return to their homes to cultivate their lands. They will have to spend more time in camps. Security will deteriorate. Women will continue to be exposed to rape, and children will continue to suffer.”
The mediation deadline -the deadline was extended until midnight Abuja time on Tuesday- was highlighted by protests around the world April 30. In Washington, an estimated 10,000 15,000 protesters, representing widely divergent ideologies, gathered at a rally on the National Mall to urge Bush and other Western leaders to devote more muscle to ending the conflict. „The world policy on Sudan is failing”, actor George Clooney, who recently returned from a visit to the refugee camps in the region, told the crowd. „If we turn our heads and look away and hope it will all go away, then they will - and an entire generation will disappear.” (Associated Baptist Press)
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