Darfur policy is now under review in the Obama Administration. Two key figures are Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice. To try to influence this review, we have produced a 191-page document and sent hard copies to Clinton, Rice, Senator Feingold (WI), Congressman Hinchey (NY), among others.

2009_Darfur_Report.zip

Contents:

• Letter to Secretary Clinton:
  • Summary of Letter to Secretary of State Clinton
  • Letter to Secretary Clinton from John Weiss
• Proposal to the European Union Regarding Darfur and Sudan
  • Text of Proposal, Signatories
  • Attachment to Proposal (Gives Rationale, Mission and Agenda of Joint Darfur/Sudan Planning Commission, Expected Benefits)
  • Appendices (Supporting Documents)
• The Rewards of Marginalization, The Consequences of Protesting (Images)
• Brochure: Darfur: The Final Solution, And How To Stop It
  • International Citizens Tribunal for Sudan (Indictment)
  • Bilad al-Sudan (Introduction, Lyrics, Tune, Notes)
  • What To Do About Darfur .. And Why We Won't Do It
  • Three-Part Plan For Darfur
• Implementing a No-Fly Zone in Darfur. Third Report
• Lessons from the Failure to Rescue Darfur
• The Tragic Fate of an Attempt to Make Peace
• Khartoum Opens the Trap
• Judgment of the International CitizensŐ Tribunal for Sudan (Soyinka)
• The Social Structure of Darfur
• The Darfur Endgame: Notes for a Comprehensive Plan to End the Genocide in Darfur

Below are links to an inventory of four container-loads of medical equipment that has now arrived in the port of Mombasa, Kenya, en route to Juba, capital of South Sudan. The equipment was assembled from Canadian donors: medical and dental practitioners, hospitals, and other citizens. The project to arrange for the shipment and raise money for the $40,000 cost of shipping the equipment was organized and directed by Ottawa resident Justin Laku, founder and president of Canadian Friends of Sudan and a collaborator on Darfur projects, since 2004, with the Darfur Action Group-Cornell.

This report, based on research in unclassified written sources as well as interviews with fourteen high-ranking military and civilian experts, assesses the possible contributions of a no-fly zone to the resolution of the Darfur question. It discusses three possible functions of these zones and considers six possible missions, which could make use of these functions. The impact upon mission choice of UNSC Resolution 1769, the effectiveness of which is critically analyzed, also receives attention.

Reports on 6 and 7 December indicate that janjaweed militias are massing for large-scale attacks on El Fashir, capital of North Darfur. Units of 1000+ personnel have been observed in coordinated actions.

Frustrated at the inability of American policies to stop the killings, rapes, and forced starvation in the Darfur region of western Sudan, a group of American human rights activists decided to appeal to the Canadian government to lead the international community’s efforts to end the atrocities. Departing from the city of Ithaca, in central New York State, the group traveled by bicycle to the Canadian capital of Ottawa, taking a 600-mile route around Lake Ontario that included stops in Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Hamilton, and Toronto.

The journey began on July 11th, the tenth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia, and ended on August 7th with the presentation of a petition to the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa.