Dallaire urges leadership on Darfur

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Canada must mobilize money and troops, and lead an international effort to end the violence in Darfur, Senator Romeo Dallaire said Sunday at a rally to protest the bloodshed in the Sudanese region.

Dallaire, who as a Canadian general, led the ill-fated United Nations mission to Rwanda, said Darfur could turn into another Rwanda if action isn’t taken soon.

“Darfur is tasting, smelling, looking in every way, shape or form, like a repetition on a similar scale of what happened in Rwanda 12 years ago,” he said.

“We are going to witness again, with blood on our hands, the destruction of human beings who are exactly like us.”

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1. Day for Darfur: Tens of Thousands Rally in Global Day Against Genocide

Day for Darfur: Tens of Thousands Rally in Global Day Against Genocide

AMY GOODMAN: Jason Miller, what companies are doing business with Sudan?

JASON MILLER: It's important to emphasize that our group is not interested in targeting all companies, because some are doing substantial good in Sudan, but the ones that are really helping the government without providing benefit to Sudan’s citizens tend to be oil and energy companies from China, Russia, India, Malaysia, and to some degree France. And not surprisingly, these are the same countries, especially China and Russia, that are impeding a lot of international action on the issue of Darfur. They’re protecting their commercial interests in the country.

AMY GOODMAN: Mohamed Yahya, we just have a few seconds. What at this point are you saying needs to be done? Do you believe that a U.N. peacekeeping force in Sudan will make the difference? Is it at all possible? We're talking just a matter of days before the end of September, when the African Union forces leave.

MOHAMED ADAM YAHYA: Certainly, the peacekeepers, if deployed immediately to Sudan, they are going to make a difference. And our people over there, they are waiting for a long time to get those peacekeepers in Darfur. And they even demonstrated in their camps, those IDPs and those refugees in the cities, in the towns, in their shelters in Chad, they made a statement, and they said, “Welcome, welcome, U.S.A. Welcome, welcome, United Nations,” because the only way out from this really terrible war and this genocide to send the international peacekeepers, the foreigners, and this is going to -- hopefully United States of America to lead this mission, and immediately, before those African Union withdrawn from Darfur. And this is the only solution, I believe.

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