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CLINTON, McCAIN, OBAMA JOINT STATEMENT: ‘WE STAND UNITED ON SUDAN’
Candidates pledge ‘unstinting resolve’ in ending Darfur genocide, Save Darfur Coalition hails historic joint statement on ending Sudan crisis
Notice how they don't take any responsibility at all. Hell, Clinton's husband stood by and watched the genocide in Rawanda unfold.
These people are so full of ****.
Candidates pledge ‘unstinting resolve’ in ending Darfur genocide, Save Darfur Coalition hails historic joint statement on ending Sudan crisis
WASHINGTON – The Save Darfur Coalition today hailed the historic joint statement by the three remaining U.S. presidential candidates stating their united resolve to end the Darfur genocide and bring peace and security to all Sudan.
“As we campaign for President of the United States over the next several months, we expect there to be significant focus on the many differences between us,” reads the statement, which is also featured today in a New York Times advertisement. “It is with this awareness that we are taking the uncommon step of issuing a joint statement about an issue. After more than five years of genocide, the Sudanese government and its proxies continue to commit atrocities against civilians in Darfur. This is unacceptable to the American people and to the world community.”
A copy of the advertisement can be viewed here: www.savedarfur.org/darfurunited.
“With this unequivocal joint statement, these candidates have elected to transcend their differences in party and policies and unite for the peace and protection of the people in Sudan,” said Save Darfur Coalition board chair Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, M.D. “Candidates should bear in mind, though, that the work of Darfur advocates is not done. The constituency of conscience that has come together around Darfur is determined to make clear to the candidates that a plan for peace in Sudan is a prerequisite for the White House.”
“The unanimous resolve among the candidates to bring an end to the genocide is a testament to the gravity of the situation in Darfur and also the effectiveness of the advocates’ campaigns to move U.S. and world leaders to action,” said Larry Sabato, founder and director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “In fact, this may be the first issue to generate a joint statement of this magnitude since the foreign policy advisors to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Thomas E. Dewey asserted their respective candidates’ resolve to end World War II prior to the 1944 presidential election.”
Ongoing and escalating violence in Sudan – including the recent destruction of the contested town of Abyei – reinforces the importance of this united determination from the candidates. Following the Justice and Equality Movement attack on the capital May 10, reports from the ground indicate that the Sudanese government’s response has been heavy-handed and rife with human rights abuses. The reports indicate widespread detentions and disappearances, summary executions, crackdowns on Darfuri journalists and lawyers, and the looting of Darfuri homes and businesses in and around Khartoum. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir virtually promised a new round of brutal attacks in Darfur on May 20, leaving millions of civilians in the villages, cities and IDP camps in fear for their lives.
Throughout the presidential campaign, activists across the country have engaged the candidates on Darfur through initiatives like Ask the Candidates (www.askthecandidates.org) and Save Darfur’s Voter Education Project. The coalition launched its voter education project (www.savedarfur.org/candidates) last November – which features two-minute YouTube op-eds from the candidates. In Iowa and New Hampshire, hundreds of caucus and primary-goers signed full-page advertisements pressing Republican and Democratic presidential candidates to outline a clear policy to end the suffering in Darfur and to make the prevention of future atrocities a priority in their campaigns. The coalition will continue its efforts to ensure the Darfur genocide remains a central topic in the race for the White House.
“Today, we wish to make clear to the Sudanese government that on this moral issue of tremendous importance, there is no divide between us,” the statement adds. “If peace and security for the people of Sudan are not in place when one of us is inaugurated as President on January 20, 2009, we pledge that the next Administration will pursue these goals with unstinting resolve.”
The full text of the statement appears below.
WE STAND UNITED ON SUDAN
As we campaign for President of the United States over the next several months, we expect there to be significant focus on the many differences between us. After all, elections are about choices in a free society. We have had a spirited contest so far and fully expect a robust debate about issues foreign and domestic right up to Election Day.
As we engage in this process, we are fully aware that friend and foe around the globe are watching and sometimes reacting based on their own analysis of the latest developments in the campaign.
It is with this awareness that we are taking the uncommon step of issuing a joint statement about an issue.
After more than five years of genocide, the Sudanese government and its proxies continue to commit atrocities against civilians in Darfur. This is unacceptable to the American people and to the world community.
We deplore all violence against the people of Darfur. There can be no doubt that the Sudanese government is chiefly responsible for the violence and is able to end it. We condemn the Sudanese government’s consistent efforts to undermine peace and security, including its repeated attacks against its own people and the multiple barriers it has put up to the swift and effective deployment of the United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force. We further condemn the Sudanese government’s refusal to adhere to the terms of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended the conflict in southern Sudan.
Today, we wish to make clear to the Sudanese government that on this moral issue of tremendous importance, there is no divide between us. We stand united and demand that the genocide and violence in Darfur be brought to an end and that the CPA be fully implemented. Even as we campaign for the presidency, we will use our standing as Senators to press for the steps needed to ensure that the United States honors, in practice and in deed, its commitment to the cause of peace and protection of Darfur’s innocent citizenry. We will continue to keep a close watch on events in Sudan and speak out for its marginalized peoples. It would be a huge mistake for the Khartoum regime to think that it will benefit by running out the clock on the Bush Administration. If peace and security for the people of Sudan are not in place when one of us is inaugurated as President on January 20, 2009, we pledge that the next Administration will pursue these goals with unstinting resolve.
“As we campaign for President of the United States over the next several months, we expect there to be significant focus on the many differences between us,” reads the statement, which is also featured today in a New York Times advertisement. “It is with this awareness that we are taking the uncommon step of issuing a joint statement about an issue. After more than five years of genocide, the Sudanese government and its proxies continue to commit atrocities against civilians in Darfur. This is unacceptable to the American people and to the world community.”
A copy of the advertisement can be viewed here: www.savedarfur.org/darfurunited.
“With this unequivocal joint statement, these candidates have elected to transcend their differences in party and policies and unite for the peace and protection of the people in Sudan,” said Save Darfur Coalition board chair Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, M.D. “Candidates should bear in mind, though, that the work of Darfur advocates is not done. The constituency of conscience that has come together around Darfur is determined to make clear to the candidates that a plan for peace in Sudan is a prerequisite for the White House.”
“The unanimous resolve among the candidates to bring an end to the genocide is a testament to the gravity of the situation in Darfur and also the effectiveness of the advocates’ campaigns to move U.S. and world leaders to action,” said Larry Sabato, founder and director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “In fact, this may be the first issue to generate a joint statement of this magnitude since the foreign policy advisors to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Thomas E. Dewey asserted their respective candidates’ resolve to end World War II prior to the 1944 presidential election.”
Ongoing and escalating violence in Sudan – including the recent destruction of the contested town of Abyei – reinforces the importance of this united determination from the candidates. Following the Justice and Equality Movement attack on the capital May 10, reports from the ground indicate that the Sudanese government’s response has been heavy-handed and rife with human rights abuses. The reports indicate widespread detentions and disappearances, summary executions, crackdowns on Darfuri journalists and lawyers, and the looting of Darfuri homes and businesses in and around Khartoum. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir virtually promised a new round of brutal attacks in Darfur on May 20, leaving millions of civilians in the villages, cities and IDP camps in fear for their lives.
Throughout the presidential campaign, activists across the country have engaged the candidates on Darfur through initiatives like Ask the Candidates (www.askthecandidates.org) and Save Darfur’s Voter Education Project. The coalition launched its voter education project (www.savedarfur.org/candidates) last November – which features two-minute YouTube op-eds from the candidates. In Iowa and New Hampshire, hundreds of caucus and primary-goers signed full-page advertisements pressing Republican and Democratic presidential candidates to outline a clear policy to end the suffering in Darfur and to make the prevention of future atrocities a priority in their campaigns. The coalition will continue its efforts to ensure the Darfur genocide remains a central topic in the race for the White House.
“Today, we wish to make clear to the Sudanese government that on this moral issue of tremendous importance, there is no divide between us,” the statement adds. “If peace and security for the people of Sudan are not in place when one of us is inaugurated as President on January 20, 2009, we pledge that the next Administration will pursue these goals with unstinting resolve.”
The full text of the statement appears below.
WE STAND UNITED ON SUDAN
As we campaign for President of the United States over the next several months, we expect there to be significant focus on the many differences between us. After all, elections are about choices in a free society. We have had a spirited contest so far and fully expect a robust debate about issues foreign and domestic right up to Election Day.
As we engage in this process, we are fully aware that friend and foe around the globe are watching and sometimes reacting based on their own analysis of the latest developments in the campaign.
It is with this awareness that we are taking the uncommon step of issuing a joint statement about an issue.
After more than five years of genocide, the Sudanese government and its proxies continue to commit atrocities against civilians in Darfur. This is unacceptable to the American people and to the world community.
We deplore all violence against the people of Darfur. There can be no doubt that the Sudanese government is chiefly responsible for the violence and is able to end it. We condemn the Sudanese government’s consistent efforts to undermine peace and security, including its repeated attacks against its own people and the multiple barriers it has put up to the swift and effective deployment of the United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force. We further condemn the Sudanese government’s refusal to adhere to the terms of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended the conflict in southern Sudan.
Today, we wish to make clear to the Sudanese government that on this moral issue of tremendous importance, there is no divide between us. We stand united and demand that the genocide and violence in Darfur be brought to an end and that the CPA be fully implemented. Even as we campaign for the presidency, we will use our standing as Senators to press for the steps needed to ensure that the United States honors, in practice and in deed, its commitment to the cause of peace and protection of Darfur’s innocent citizenry. We will continue to keep a close watch on events in Sudan and speak out for its marginalized peoples. It would be a huge mistake for the Khartoum regime to think that it will benefit by running out the clock on the Bush Administration. If peace and security for the people of Sudan are not in place when one of us is inaugurated as President on January 20, 2009, we pledge that the next Administration will pursue these goals with unstinting resolve.
These people are so full of ****.
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