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Promote Peace and Protection in Central Africa

Target: President of the United States
Sponsored by: ENOUGH

There have been and continue to be human rights violations on a massive scale in Sudan, northern Uganda and eastern Congo.

* In Sudan, up to 300,000 have died and 2.5 million fled to refugee camps since 2003 in the country's internal fighting.

* In northern Uganda, thousands of children (some as young as 8-years old) were systemically captured by the rebel Lord's Resistance Army, forced to become soldiers and kill.

* In eastern Congo, there's a war raging that's killed approximately 5.4 million people since 1998, and one of its tools is the deliberate and systematic rape of women and girls.

While there is no magic formula to end these crimes, there is a strategic one. We can stop genocide and crimes against humanity now and in the future, through the "Three P's": Promoting Peace, Providing Protection, and Punishing the Perpetrators.

Please act today to help end the human rights abuses and bring peace to three of Africa's most troubled states.

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goal: 20,000

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As a concerned American, I urge you to take immediate action to end the genocide in Darfur, Sudan and the crimes against humanity in eastern Congo and northern Uganda. While there is no magic formula to end these crimes, I believe there is a strategic one.

We can stop genocide and crimes against humanity now and in the future, through the "Three P's": Promoting Peace, Providing Protection, and Punishing the Perpetrators.

The 3 P's for Sudan:
* Promote a comprehensive peace process with high-level diplomacy
* Protect innocent civilians through the UN/AU peacekeeping force
* Provide information to the International Criminal Court and support multilateral targeted sanctions to punish the perpetrators

The 3 P's for eastern Congo:
* Establish a permanent office in eastern Congo to ensure U.S. leadership in the peace process
* Support MONUC - the UN's peacekeeping force in Congo - in protecting the innocent civilians caught in the conflict.
* Call for the International Criminal Court to open an investigation into rape as a war crime in eastern Congo to begin punishing those most responsible.
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The 3 P's for northern Uganda:
* Support a post-peace agreement process and work to create a direct negotiating channel with the Lord's Resistance Army
* Monitor efforts to protect civilians
* Work through the U.N. Security Council to punish the perpetrators by cutting off their support lines.

These specific actions will put pressure on the perpetrators, protect the people, support a robust investment in peace processes and promote the sustained commitment of diplomatic and financial resources. These steps are a small price to pay for justice, peace and dignity for people who have seen their lives destroyed. We must act swiftly and responsibly to end the continual violence and suffering in these nations. I strongly urge you to take these actions.

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2:27 pm PDT, Aug 31, Peter Fairley, Nevada

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2:10 pm PDT, Aug 31, Kate Mcmonagle, California

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1:49 am PDT, Aug 31, Virginia Parker, South Carolina

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1:38 am PDT, Aug 31, Michael Richardson, Florida
It's Extreamly Important and the Right thing to do..

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1:35 am PDT, Aug 31, Joan Findlay, Oregon

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12:47 am PDT, Aug 31, Taren Carter Hines, Arizona

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12:18 am PDT, Aug 31, Barry Stieb II, Nevada

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7:23 pm PDT, Aug 30, Name not displayed, Texas

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6:31 pm PDT, Aug 30, Kit Chang, Massachusetts

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6:08 pm PDT, Aug 30, Phillip Carew, Canada
"Most victims, as ever, are women and girls, some no more than toddlers, though men and boys have sometimes been targeted too. Local aid workersand UN reports tell of gang rapes, leaving victims with appalling physical and psychological injuries; rapes committed in front of families or whole communities; male relatives forced at gunpoint to rape their own daughters, mothers or sisters; women used as sex slaves forced to eat excrement and even to cannibalising murdered relatives. Some women murdered by a gun shoved 'inside'." How can we stand by and watch this happen to innocent people who are just trying to get by on the limited resources they have. These civilians are helpless and are victims of a war they aren't fighting. Please help them.

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5:53 pm PDT, Aug 30, Lisa Michael, Canada
Every human has the right to shelter, food and comfort. Please help these people who are not as lucky as we.

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5:01 pm PDT, Aug 30, Rev Crow Swimsaway Phd, Ohio

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4:50 pm PDT, Aug 30, Marlena Lawson, Arizona

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4:47 pm PDT, Aug 30, Katie Cook, Washington D.C.
We need to address the atrocities taking place in Sudan with an earnest and sustained effort. How, after all, can we initiate a war in Iraq and occupy it for five years under the auspices of "freedom and democracy" and then ignore the flagrant human rights abuses taking place in Sudan???????

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4:34 pm PDT, Aug 30, Linda Knanishu, California

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1:29 pm PDT, Aug 30, Robert Conway, Arizona

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1:00 pm PDT, Aug 30, Jennifer Lanahan, Wisconsin

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12:53 pm PDT, Aug 30, Nicole Erdley, Virginia
Crimes against innocent women & children cannot be tolerated.

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12:45 pm PDT, Aug 30, Mark Mercer, Florida

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10:57 am PDT, Aug 30, Melissa Gagliano, Oregon

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10:45 am PDT, Aug 30, Debby Ledbetter, Colorado
We have our noses inn enough places where war is imminent. Why not change that? Let's help promote peace for a change?

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10:20 am PDT, Aug 30, Robert Mills, Massachusetts

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10:01 am PDT, Aug 30, Jenna Hains, Ohio

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