Is there anything that can be done in Sudan? Would sanctions even help? They generally don't with the really corrupt regimes: those in power never really feel them and the poor are already starving and dying.
They say that: [blockquote]The effectiveness of divestment has a recent precedent. After a divestment campaign by Western investors in response to the North-South civil war in the country, Talisman Energy decided in 2003 to end its operations in Sudan. The decision prompted two other international oil companies to sell their stakes in Sudan. Faced with the prospect of continuing loss of investment, Khartoum signed the Naivasha Treaty with southern rebels shortly thereafter, paving the way for the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between North and South in January of 2005. http://www.inosphere.com/sudan/divestment.asp[/blockquote]
The International Crisis Group has some "What you can do" advice.
Dailykos has a Darfur Week. Perhaps Eurotrib could do the same to increase awareness.
My contribution is at the Atlantic Review Atlantic Review - A press digest on transatlantic affairs edited by three German Fulbright Alumni
A Darfur week is a good idea. I've already written at length on the subject here. The world's northernmost desert wind.
That was another great diary of yours.
Save Darfur says Join our rally in Washington, DC on April 30th, 2006.
Perhaps we could support them in our blogs during that week. Atlantic Review - A press digest on transatlantic affairs edited by three German Fulbright Alumni
