Maroon Missionaries Organization: Act to End Ethnic Cleansing & Genocide in Darfur
The Darfur genocide has killed more than 400,000 civilians and displaced 2.5 million people from their homes. About the size of Texas, the Darfur region of Sudan is home to racially mixed Muslim tribes. In February 2003, frustrated by poverty and neglect, two Darfurian rebel groups launched an uprising against the Khartoum government. The government responded with a scorched-earth campaign, arming and bankrolling militias against the innocent civilians of Darfur. A small peacekeeping force run by the African Union is in place, but it is largely unsupported by the rest of the world. Civilian protection is desperately needed to stop the violence and end the genocide.
Mukesh Kapila, the U.N. coordinator for Sudan stated, "I was present in Rwanda at the time of the genocide, and I've seen many other situations around the world and I am totally shocked at what is going on in Darfur. This is the world's greatest humanitarian crisis, and I don't know why the world isn't doing more about it."
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WE, THE UNDERSIGNED:
Call on the United Nations Security Counsel to pass a resolution:
(1) requiring the government of Sudan to immediately end the attacks and killings of civilians in Darfur by government forces and militias; and if the government of Sudan fails to do this,
(2) authorizing member states to send peacekeeping troops to Darfur to stop the systematic murder of the people of Sudan by the Janjawid and government-backed militias.
