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References to crimes against humanity in Sudan

Supporting documents by reporters who can be invited to meet roundtable and who happen to think that words have meaning
	And whom other reporters can contact. Three NEWSPAPER REPORTS on The Genocide Against Christians in Sudan ONE: GENOCIDE: Sudan Found Guilty By Nat Hentoff The Village Voice, November 6, 2002 The acts of the Government of Sudan . . . constitute genocide as defined by the [United Nations] Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948). —Sudan Peace Act, signed by the president of the United States, October 21, 2002. Since 1983, over 2 million black, non-Muslim civilians have died during the civil war in Sudan. Blacks in the south of the country have been fighting for self-determination and to end the enslavement of women and children, ethnic cleansing, aerial bombardment of schools and churches, and the creation of famine conditions—all of this by the National Islamic Front government of the north. Much of the world, including the United States, has all along largely ignored what The Washington Post, in a September 9 editorial, called "possibly the greatest humanitarian disaster on Earth." But that newspaper and The New York Times, among other dailies and weeklies, have only glancingly covered the disaster, and often with false information. Top In his review of the book Emma's War in the October 20 New York Times, George Packer; note author’s name is not given; it’s author “Deborah Scroggins” got to the essence of continual media indifference to the horrors of the National Islamic Front "jihad" against the blacks in the south: "The deaths of 10,000 southern Sudanese by slaughter or 100,000 by [deliberate] starvation can occur with hardly a mention in American newspapers." The other constant murders and gang rapes by the northern militias have also slipped by the media. Until mid-October, I was convinced that only mass demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience here, the kind that hastened the end of apartheid in South Africa, could move the White House and Congress to do something—not in rhetoric but in law, with sanctions—to end the ceaseless state terrorism in Sudan. However, an extraordinary historic coalition of abolitionists has in recent years put such unremitting pressure on Bush and Congress that at last, on October 9, a unanimous Senate passed the Sudan Peace Act. It had already been approved in the House on October 7 by a vote of 359 to 8. Among those in the coalition are black churches around the country, white evangelicals, the Boston-based American Anti-Slavery Group, the Congressional Black Caucus, Chuck Colson's Prison Fellowship, the Institute on Religion and Democracy, civil rights leaders such as Joe Madison and Walter Fauntroy, conservatives led by Michael Horowitz of the Hudson Institute and Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, Jewish organizations, and others. Missing all these years were nearly all of the Democratic leadership in Congress, most editorial writers and columnists, and, with few exceptions, American broadcast and cable television. Next week: the details of the Sudan Peace Act, including sanctions for noncompliance with the law. Also, why this is an important beginning of the end for these atrocities; but also why continuous pressure on the White House and Congress—and Khartoum—will be essential. Keep in mind, however, that with the United States having found Khartoum guilty of actual genocide, a heavy obligation now falls on the White House and Congress to follow through. Article One of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide states clearly: "The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish." (Emphasis added.) We have now contracted to do that. Should the slave raids, the ethnic cleansing, and the gang rapes continue, the leaders of the government of Sudan could be brought before the International War Crimes Tribunal. However, all the abolitionists in the American coalition will have to ensure that Congress and the White House bring those indictments, if necessary, before the War Crimes Tribunal. Top Meanwhile, from Christian Solidarity International—which, with the American Anti-Slavery Group, has redeemed thousands of slaves—there is this report from Khartoum after the passage of the Sudan Peace Act: "The National Assembly in Khartoum urged Arabs and Muslims throughout the world to denounce the law, calling it 'a breach of Sudan's sovereignty' . . . The Sudanese chargé d'affaires in Washington, Dr. Harun Khidir, blamed 'members of the extremist Christian right groups and a group of the black masses' for pushing the Sudan Peace Act through Congress. . . . Top "Following congressional approval of the legislation, Islamist officials organized a mass demonstration in Khartoum in support of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, during which an effigy of President Bush, wrapped in American and Israeli flags and labeled 'the corpse of imperialism,' was torn to shreds and burnt." (The latter story was reported by Agence France-Presse on October 16). Colin Powell might have been added to the bonfire had the slavemasters known—as I have found out—that Powell, behind the scenes, was an important factor in getting the Bush administration to finally move on abolishing slavery in Sudan. Powell is the man Harry Belafonte calls "a house slave." In all the years I've been involved in this story, I do not recall Belafonte being an active, persistent member of the New Abolitionists working to liberate the blacks of Sudan—although he has been prominent in other human rights causes. Powell has been significantly involved in the anti-slavery movement. Actually, when I started writing about the slaves of Sudan in the Voice about six years ago, the beginning of the New Abolitionist movement was driven by the American Anti-Slavery Group, headed by Charles Jacobs, who first told me of the horrors in Sudan. There was also a young graduate student at Columbia University, Sam Cotton, who traveled to black churches and newspapers around the country to spread the liberating word. In Denver, Barbara Vogel told her fifth-grade class that slavery was not dead, and those kids began collecting money to free slaves in Sudan through Christian Solidarity International. Other schoolchildren around the country joined in. Eric Reeves took two years off from teaching Shakespeare and Milton at Smith College to focus invaluably on research and advocacy, including testimony before Congress on the National Islamic Front's barbarity in Sudan. Donald Payne led the Congressional Black Caucus's involvement, with the later help of Eleanor Holmes-Norton. Instrumental members of the House included Frank Wolf, Spencer Bachus, and Tom Trancedo. There were many more. "And," John Eibner of Christian Solidarity International told me on the day Bush signed the Sudan Peace Act, "don't forget all the anonymous people who signed pledge cards, contributed money, and prayed for the freedom of the slaves. We'll never know who they were, but the Sudan Peace Act couldn't have happened without them." Top
TWO . The Boston Globe, Sudan, October 5, 2002
	An instructive case is Sudan. Atrocities there exceed every other world horror. For 10 years the blacks of South Sudan have been victims of an onslaught that has taken more than 2 million lives. Colin Powell calls it ''the worst human rights nightmare on the planet.'' Yet with the important exception of the black Christian community here, there has been a disturbingly muted reaction from well-known American human rights champions. The media cover the deaths in Sudan only occasionally. Do rights activists and editorialists care more for Palestinians than for blacks? Surely not. It is the nature of the conflict, I propose, not the level of horror, that determines the response of Westerners. In Khartoum, a Taliban-like Muslim regime is waging a self-declared jihad on African Christians and followers of tribal faiths in South Sudan. Non-Arab African Muslims are also targeted for devastation. Two million people have been killed - more than in Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia, Haiti, Rwanda, and Burundi combined. Tens of thousands have been displaced, and 100,000, according to the US Committee on Refugees, forcibly starved. Western lack of interest is all the more stunning as Khartoum's onslaught has rekindled the trade in black slaves, halted (mostly) a century ago by the British abolitionists. Arab militias storm African villages, kill the men, and enslave the women and children. Top Accounts by journalists and others depict the horror. In these pogroms, after the men are slaughtered, the women, girls, and boys are gang raped - or they have their throats slit for resisting. The terrorized survivors are marched northward and distributed to Arab masters, the women to become concubines, the girls domestics, the boys goat herders. It is hard to explain why victims of slavery and slaughter are virtually ignored… Charles Jacobs, The Boston Globe, October 5, 2002. Top
Good people: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Speaks
	A letter in the Washington Post, October 31, 2000: Carnage In Sudan By Irving Greenberg Tuesday, October 31, 2000; Page A23 Jerome Shestack The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, America's memorial to victims of the Holocaust, is meant to be a living memorial, responding to the future even as it remembers the past. The sacred trust of memory requires us to confront and work to halt genocide today. That is why we are compelled to speak out on the continuing slaughter in Sudan, where the museum's Committee on Conscience has determined that government actions threaten genocide. One does not lightly invoke the specter of genocide--the intentional physical destruction of national, ethnic, racial or religious groups as such. But the horror that afflicts Sudan is staggering: some 2 million dead; another 4 million to 5 million driven from their homes; government toleration of the enslavement of women and children; mass starvation used as a weapon of war; churches and mosques destroyed; hospitals and clinics bombed; widespread discrimination and persecution on account of race, ethnicity and religion. Primary responsibility for this devastation belongs to the Sudanese government, a military regime based in the north. The principal victims include the Dinka and Nuer peoples in the south and the Nuba in central Sudan. The conflict is often described as pitting the Arabic-speaking, Islamic north against the African south, where Christianity and traditional religions predominate. But the reality is more complex. For example, the Nuba, who have suffered so much, live in the center of the country, and many are Muslims. And one pernicious government strategy has been to encourage fighting among ethnic groups in the south, especially the Dinka and Nuer, with devastating effects for the civilian members of those groups. Sudan's diversity means that the carnage defies easy characterization. But the effects in terms of shattered lives are all too plain. Indeed, many see the appalling toll and say that genocide is not a threat, it is a reality. Whether genocide is actual or threatened, the moral imperative to respond is overwhelming. We cannot remain bystanders as this remorseless fire consumes the people of Sudan. Top Recent events indicate that the government is poised once again to use mass starvation as a tactic. Threats this summer by Sudanese President Omar Hassan Bashir to cut off U.N.-sponsored relief flights to the south were followed by government bombing attacks on civilians, humanitarian workers and relief planes on the ground. The resulting disruption of U.N. and other aid operations put thousands of civilians at risk of starvation. A 1998 famine in the southern province of Bahr el-Ghazal that was attributable to human rights abuses and flight bans killed tens of thousands of Dinka and others. And as bad as the situation already is, it promises to get worse. In late 1999, the Sudanese government began earning hundreds of millions of dollars from new oil production, made possible in part by Western oil companies such as Talisman Energy. This hard currency gives the government both greater means and greater motive to accelerate its assault on targeted groups. As one Sudanese cabinet minister said, "What prevents us from fighting while we possess the oil that supports us in this battle even if it lasts for a century?" The problem is that the government "possesses" the oil only if it cleanses ethnic groups such as the Dinka and Nuer from the land under which it sits. The government's desire to secure oil fields has fueled a vicious scorched-earth campaign, laying waste to a broad swath of territory. Amnesty International has documented what it calls "the human price of oil" in Sudan: "a pattern of extrajudicial and indiscriminate killings, torture and rape--committed against people not taking active part in the hostilities." Tragically, there will be more to come: The government does not yet control the richest oil deposits. Top A Sudanese government "charm offensive" has softened its international image. But its practices have not changed. For example, a government plane dropped a dozen bombs on a Catholic-run medical dispensary in the south, destroying the clinic and injuring six people. For too long, the devastation in Sudan has been largely invisible to the world, and remote from the concerns of the American public. We must make it more visible. To that end, the museum's Committee on Conscience will be undertaking a determined campaign to alert the national conscience to this catastrophe--through public programs, through a display in the museum that will open Nov. 15 and through communications with policymakers. We cannot do otherwise. Remembrance of the Holocaust has instilled in us a profound appreciation for the cost of silence. Rabbi Greenberg is chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, and Jerome Shestack is chairman of its Committee on Conscience. © 2000 The Washington Post Company Top
Good People: The Wall Street Journal, and Michael Rubin
	Michael Rubin of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy – washingtoninstitute.org - has written in the Wall Street Journal, December 12, 2001, about the Genocide Against Christians in Sudan, where he has visited. Mr. Rubin in the Wall Street Journal: “I traveled to Sudan.. Sudan has interpreted Washington's willingness to engage as a green light to carry on the regime's decade-old jihad against Christians… Between Oct. 23-26, Sudanese government troops attacked villages near the southern town of Aweil, killing 93 men and enslaving 85 women and children…on Nov. 2, the Sudanese military attacked villages near the town of Nyamlell, carrying off another 113 women and children. What's Sudanese slavery like? One 11-year-old Christian boy told me about his first days in captivity: "I was told to be a Muslim several times, and I refused, which is why they cut off my finger." To CBS News, NBC News, ABC News and CNN, all these crimes against humanity constitute a non-event about a non-people. Top ___________________________ Good People: Clifford D. May Clifford D. May, president, Foundation for the Defense of the Democracies, spoke unsolicited, on-air on CNN, May 14, 2002, to Paula Zahn about the Genocide Against African Christians in Sudan. No response from CNN. (We notice that a great many of the spokespersons against the Genocide Against Christians in Sudan are Jewish including numerous reporters. Let history record. - Terrence) The Largest Boycott in History requires that Clifford D. May be offered a 10-year contract position throughout Time Warner/CNN of both Commentator on CNN's Evening News (the one anchored by boffo blond Paula Zahn), and, an Executive Producer position, to include responsibility in reportage of (1) Genocide Against Christians, and, (2) the new, violent anti-Semitism in Europe. Paula Zahn has never broken a news story in her life, not one, ever. As differentiated from being the first at her network to read wire copy. Time magazine currently does not report on Genocide Against Christians, deeming this social group as too explosive. The 100 largest advertisers....disagree with Time Warner/TIME/CNN! Top ___________________________ The New York Times, January 27, 2004, page A10, “…the government is laying waste to communities controlled by [Christian] rebels… Armed conflict is also likely to continue…” What does the term “government laying waste to communities” mean? The Largest Boycott in History demands an explanation – on national television. If white communities were suffering being “laid waste by a government,” would not this be top of the evening news, night after night? None if this is ever heard on CBS News, NBC News, ABC News and CNN. There must be an accounting of the over 2,000,000 dead and an accounting by (1) GE-NBC-Universal-MSNBC[Microsoft]/CNBC-Telemundo (2) Viacom-CBS, (3) Disney-ABC and (4) Time Warner-CNN and (5) News Corp./Fox News of: Each month of the Complete Annihilation Campaign against African Christians. The accounting must be Largest Boycotts-acceptable, be month by month, year by year, with each television network’s parent corporation producing, to the nation, on the floor of the Inglewood Forum in Los Angeles, its videotapes of its coverage, if any, of each month of the Complete Annihilation Campaign. This is still going to be a new, fresh issue 20 years from now. It is not going away. Get used to it. Top
An Excellent if Deeply Flawed New York Times Editorial, April 7, 2004
	Peril in Sudan The worsening humanitarian disaster in western Sudan, where thousands of people have been killed and almost a million driven from their homes and farms by government-backed forces, will test whether the world has learned anything from its failure to stop the genocide in Rwanda 10 years ago. The United Nations, the United States, the European Union and African states must press the Sudanese government to halt attacks on civilians and to let aid agencies in. Absent swift and determined international action, Sudan could be another case of outside neglect allowing famine and disease to consume a nation. For two decades, the Muslim Arab elite in Khartoum, the capital, has responded ruthlessly to political, economic and social demands from Sudan's ethnically and religiously diverse regions. After a cease-fire was declared in 2002 in the long-running civil war between the government and rebels in the south, Khartoum turned its forces on black African rebels in the Darfur region in the west. Instead of aiming solely at the rebels, however, the government, helped by Arab militias, has also taken aim at civilians. Throughout Darfur — a huge region the size of France — villages have been bombed and their inhabitants killed, raped and forced into government-run concentration camps, where they are preyed upon further by militia fighters. Aid agencies have been denied access to most of the displaced. Some people, though near starvation, are refusing aid for fear of retribution. The few international monitors in the area estimate that more than 1,000 people are dying each week from violence and disease. With no planting having been done in this agricultural region, the prospect of a devastating famine looms. Top Peace talks between Khartoum and the rebels began this week in neighboring Chad, but are faltering for want of sufficient pressure from the United States, the European Union and African states. The United States should use its leverage with Khartoum — which sheltered Osama bin Laden for six years but now wants to improve ties with Washington — to demand that aid agencies and humanitarian monitors have unhindered access to the displaced. If they need military protection, then the international community should be willing to provide it. Khartoum's actions in Darfur amount to crimes against humanity, and should be recognized as such by the U.N. Security Council. It is a bleak paradox that Sudan's president, Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir, is scheduled to attend commemorations in Rwanda this week of the genocide there 10 years ago while his forces back home are engaged in such appalling atrocities. Top _________________________________________ Comment on the New York Times Editorial by The Largest Boycott in History 1. For its inadvertently humorous, were the matter not so grave, avoidance of mentioning the dread "C" word, Christians, this editorial stand to be studied in journalism classes for the next 100 years. 2. The editorial is like an editorial in 1944 against the Nazi mass murders in Europe without mentioning the "J" word. During the Holocaust, the New York Times treated the horror as filler items on page 14. 3. It is to be considered unfortunate that the New York Times does not publish a New York City edition. Just think what CBS News, ABC New, NBC New and CNN would have done with this editorial and its news column backup if they had seen it. If only.... 4. The importance of this April 2004 editorial to the members of the board of GE-NBC, Disney-ABC, Time Warner-CNN, and Viacom-CBS: A. It stands to be read aloud during nationally-televised U.S. Congressional Hearings on the media silence about the Complete Annihilation Campaign Against Christians in Sudan. It will be read aloud to anchors, news presidents and board members. Top 5. The Largest Boycott in History is charging a target, GE-NBC $10,000,000 a week until: NBC has reporters in Sudan, north and south, reporting nightly by satellite video uplink, seven days a week, on the Genocide Against Christians, and, not less than daily questions at White House media briefings. Top
The long-ongoing Genocide Against Christians in Sudan...
	...has become worse and more intense and sinister, as any CBS News, NBC News, ABC News and CNN reporter – and network board member - can see at will at: www.csi-int.ch/index.html www.freedomhouse.org/religion/ www.freedomhouse.org/religion/sudan/index.htm www.heritage.org/Research/Africa United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, re: Genocide in Sudan: http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/ Human Rights Watch: http://hrw.org/press/2002/09/sudan0928.htm U.S. Committee for Refugees: http://www.refugees.org/world/countryindex/sudan.cfm New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof nicholas@nytimes.com is a super-guy (though he has not yet been able to bring himself to use the much dreaded "C" word; we think he will gird himself and Just Do It), his blog: www.nytimes.com/kristofresponds, in Posting NO. 344 Top
The English Language is a good language
	Survivors and witnesses of the Genocide Against Christians in Sudan are going to be brought from Sudan by Underground Railroad II to testify before Congress, before the nation, before the world. This will help prevent the annihilation of the English language by the reporters of CBS News, NBC News, ABC News and CNN in which: Genocide becomes "strife." When Christians resist being murdered in the mass, this is called "civil war." Deliberate-starvation of over a million Christians becomes "starvation" and by next week has become "hunger." When millions of Christians get murdered in genocide, they become "animists." As if on 9/11, 3,000 "believers in astrology" were murdered in the Twin Towers. The Largest Boycott in History maintains a Un-Dictionary of the ways that CBS News, NBC News, ABC News and CNN reporters will murder the English language. Note to the members of the board of directors of the parent corporation: the Largest Boycotts tag line for the Un-Dictionary is "Won't work." Top
The end of the Ancien Régime Largest Boycotts Requires that Over 100 New, Actual Reporters be Hired at each of NBC, ABC, CNN, ABC
	Note to the Board Members of the Parent Corporations: Your anchors and reporters will not be able all to quickly start using various three-word phrases to make their complicit Silence about the Complete Annihilation Campaign Against Christians go away. Instead, the current reporters will be outflanked by the new, oh-so-rude reporters. The money is already there for the hiring. Get used to it, public liar man. One hundred reporters at a chump-change hundred G's a year each is in its entirety - $10,000,000 - less than one of your ten million dollar a year bozoheads gets now. All that is ending, an era GWTW, over, poof. Thus, when you see your anchors and reporters lining up behind a screen-phrase, a stonewall phrase, along with all of the other networks' anchors and reporters, you can realize just how hopeless, helpless and hapless they are. They are also in the act of costing your corporation billions of dollars in the Boycott Settlement Payments. Something to think about, eh, eh, eh? These over 100 new, investigative reporters will be tough, super-aggressive, obnoxious, angry, Christian hypocrites, warrior Jews, real, actual reporters. Apply now in complete confidence to be one of these total more than 500 new, national television reporters. Email contact: terrence@gathering-of-eagles.com ____________________________________ Reminder The Largest Boycott in History requires that CBS, NBC, ABC and CNN publicly inform all paid-commentators that they must re-apply for their positions. In their re-applications, they must include their videotapes of their comments on Genocide Against Protestants and Catholics in Sudan; and, their comments on The Largest Boycott in History and The Historic Letter's issues. _____________________________________________ This also applies to Tim Russert at NBC, to George Stephanopolous at ABC News, Chris Matthews at MSNBC, and Paula Zahn at Time Warner/CNN. Show us your videotapes about Genocide Against Christians in Sudan. And you on The Historic Letter. Some contract re-negotiation may be in order. It is unfortunate in retrospect that none of these individuals is a Roman Catholic, nor an old Africa hand, nor the son of an eminent divine at one of the world's great cathedrals, nor a woman reporter reflecting on mothers undergoing genocide. Because then they would have covered Genocide Against Protestants and Catholics in Sudan. Note to all anchors at NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, ABC, CNN, CBS: every anchor and reporter and news executive will be publicly required to re-apply and re-negotiate his or her contract - due to Genocide Against Christians in Sudan, and, your response to the issues raised in The Historic Letter and The Largest Boycott in History. You have already cost your network some billions of dollars. How much more do you think your bosses want you to cost your network? You need to get tough. Forget Good Little Secular Humanist namby-pamby. It is over, over in the Killing Fields of Sudan, as is your career, likely over. Contact Terrence at terrence@gathering-of-eagles.com Top More news about Sudan: Gathering-of-Eagles.net/catastrophe