Divest for Darfur
(04/26/06 4:00am)
SINCE early 2003, government-sponsored attacks on the black African populations of the Darfur region of Sudan have left 400,000 dead, 2.2 million displaced and 50 percent of Darfur's population reliant on humanitarian aid that is increasingly dangerous and difficult to deliver. These brutalities prompted former Secretary of State Colin Powell in September 2004 to declare the events in Darfur genocide. Yet the international community has been tragically slow to react.