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We are deeply disheartened and outraged by the recent announcement that Germany will host an international conference for Sudanese investment in Berlin on January 29 with Sudanese foreign minister Ali Karti. As you must know, Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir is under indictment for genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Over the past twenty years, the Sudanese government has carried out crimes of genocide in South Sudan, in Darfur, in the Beja region and in the Nuba Mountains, collectively causing the deaths of approximately 3 million people. In the past 18 months, the Sudanese government has renewed ethnic cleansing in the Nuba Mountains, the Blue Nile Region and Abyei, using aerial bombardment of civilians and obstruction of humanitarian aid to cause deaths among members of African tribes and repeatedly reiterating its commitment to a racist policy. In recent months, it has carried out attacks on students of particular ethnicities, it has systematically dismantled its own legal system, it has jailed people of particular ethnicities and political affiliations allowing its security forces to attack, detain and torture civilians with impunity and it has renewed its war against its own citizens on the basis of ethnicity, both in the border regions and in Darfur.

As Jews and as Germans with a deep knowledge of the consequences of complicity with genocide, we urge you to cancel this conference as an abomination. Sudan currently uses 70% of its budget to carry out military action against its own citizens. International investment will provide greater means for the Sudanese government to carry out ethnic attacks and to further enstantiate its racist policies. We are appalled and ashamed to see the German government give its imprimateur to this travesty.

We are writing to protest Germany’s plans to host an international conference to
promote investment in Sudan on January 29, 2013 in Berlin. We ask that you cancel this
conference that places Germany squarely in the role of generating financial support for
the genocidal Sudanese regime.
As you know, genocide continues in Sudan. The National Congress Party (NCP) regime in
Sudan, led by a president indicted by the International Criminal Court for genocide,
crimes against humanity and war crimes, is causing the death, starvation, displacement,
and destruction of livelihood of Sudanese civilians in Darfur, Nuba Mountains/South
Kordofan and the Blue Nile state.
Among the issues of greatest concern are the fact that unlawful attacks against civilians
continue in South Kordofan, Blue Nile, Darfur, and the East even as the Government of
Sudan continues to restrict movement and access for international humanitarian aid
organizations operating throughout Sudan. Further key issues with South Sudan remain
unresolved, including final definition and demarcation of the north-south border and
the final status of the Abyei area. People across Sudan who protest the current regime
are denied basic rights and face attack, arrest and torture.
Efforts to promote investments in Sudan are premature and put the international
community at risk of funding a government that continues to perpetrate massive human
rights violations against its own people. Such investments should not occur prior to a
cessation of attacks on civilians, the granting of unhindered humanitarian access across
Sudan, and a clear demonstration of progress on all remaining issues, including an
inclusive constitutional review process followed by free and fair elections.
Without real, on-the-ground progress in Sudan, Southern Kordofan, Blue Nile, and
Darfur, Sudan's history of genocidal violence makes it extremely likely that this
conference, hosted by Germany, will help to fund more atrocities against civilians.
Please cancel the conference to avoid raising funds that will help support genocide.

Hawa Abdallah
U. S. Department of State 2012 Women of Courage Award Winner
Flemington, NJ, USA

Armenian National Committee of America
Aram Hamparian, Executive Director
Washington, DC, USA

Peter Balakian
Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities
Colgate University
Hamilton, NY, USA

African Soul, American Heart
Debra Dawson, President
Fargo, N.D. USA

Americans Against the Darfur Genocide
Nikki Serapio, Director
Washington, DC, USA

Arry Organization for Human Rights and Development
Osman Naway, General Director
Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Brooklyn Coalition for Darfur and Marginalized Sudan
Laura Limuli, Coordinator
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies
Gregory S. Gordon, Director
University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, ND, USA

“Change the world. It just takes cents” TMand#8232;
Sara Caine Kornfeld, Founder and Educatorand#8232;
Denver, CO, USA

Damanga Coalition For Freedom and Democracy
Mohamed Yahya, Founder and Executive Director
Falls Church, VA, USA

Darfur Action Group of South Carolina
Richard Sribnick, MD, Chairman
Columbia, South Carolina, USA

Darfur Action Group - Cornell University
John H. Weiss, Director and Associate Professor of History
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York, USA

Darfurian Association of Greater Houston
Suliman Awadalla, Executive Director
Houston, Texas, USA

Darfur and Beyond
Cory Williams, Co-Founder
Phoenix, AZ, USA

Darfur Human Rights Organization of the USA
Abdelgabar Adam, Founder and President
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Darfur Interfaith Network
Richard Young, Co-chair
Washington DC, USA

Darfur People's Association of New York
Ahmat Noor, President
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Darfur Women Action Group
Neimat Ahmadi, President
Washington, DC, USA

Dear Sudan, Love Marinand#8232;
Gerri Miller, Founder and Coordinatorand#8232;
Tiburon, CA, USA

Helen Fein
Board Chair, Institute for the Study of Genocide
New York, NY, USA

Fur Solidarity USA
Adam M. A. Yahya
Sioux Falls, SD, USA

Genocide No More--Save Darfur
Marv Steinberg, Coordinator
Redding, CA, USA

Genocide Watch
Dr. Gregory H. Stanton, President
Arlington, VA, USA

Dr. Maureen S. Hiebert
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Humanity Is Us
Kimberly Hollingsworth, Founder
New York, NY, USA

Human Rights and Advocacy Network for Democracy (HAND)
Abdalmageed S. Haroun, Chairperson
Brooklyn, NY

Idaho Darfur Coalition
A.J. Fay, Co-Founder
Boise, Idaho, USA

Jews Against Genocide
Eileen Weiss, Co-founder
New York, NY, USA

Joining Our Voices
Jack Slater Armstrong, Founder and Director
Baton Rouge, LA< USA

Adam Jones, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Political Science
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada

Kurdistan Without Genocide
A. Mahmoud

Lane County Darfur Coalition
Roz Slovic, Member
Eugene, OR, USA

Never Again Coalition
Diane Koosed, co-founder
Portland, Oregon, USA

New York Coalition for Sudan
Neiki Ullah, Director of Communications and Advocacy
New York, New York, USA

One Million Bones
Naomi Natale, Founder
Albuquerque, NM, USA

Operation Broken Silence
Mark C. Hackett, CEO
Memphis, TN, USA

Our Humanity in the Balance
Terry Nickelson, Executive Director
Asheville, North Carolina, USA

Pittsburgh Darfur Emergency Coalition
David Rosenberg, Coordinator
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Eric Reeves
Sudan Researcherand#8232;
Northampton, MA, USA

Professor Elihu D Richter MD MPH
Jerusalem Center for Genocide Prevention and
Genocide Prevention Program
Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Jerusalem, Israel

San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition
Mohamed Suleiman, President
San Francisco, CA, USA

Carmen Paolercio, coordinator
Shine A Ray of Hope
New Rochelle, NY, USA

Society for Threatened People
Sharon Silber, US representative
New York, NY, USA

Professor Roger W. Smith
Department of Government
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia, USA

Stop Genocide Now
Gabriel Stauring, Director
Redondo Beach, CA, USA

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
The Rev. Lowell Grisham, Rector
Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA

Ervin Staub
Professor Emeritus and Founding Director of the Psychology of Peace and Violence Program
University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Author: Overcoming Evil: Genocide, Violent Conflict and Terrorism
Amherst, MA, USA

Sudan Advocacy Action Forum
Dr. Eleanor Wright, Moderator
Birmingham, Alabama, USA

Sudan Center for Conflict Resolution and Development (SCCRD)
Adeeb Yousif, General Manager
Kampala, Uganda

Sudanese Diaspora Network Supporting Pro-Democracy Opposition
Abdulgfaar Saeed
Leeds, UK
The Institute on Religion and Democracy
Faith J. H. McDonnell
Director, Religious Liberty Program and Church Alliance for a New Sudan
Washington, DC, USA

THE INSTITUTE on Religion and Public Policy
Joseph K. Grieboski, Chairman of the Board
Alexandria, VA, USA

Dr. Samuel Totten
Professor Emeritus, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Author of Genocide by Attrition: Nuba Mountains, Sudan
Fayetteville, AR, USA

Nikolaos Uzunoglu, Professor
National Technical University of Athens
Athens, Greece
Unite for Darfur organization
Bahar Arabie CEO and author of Darfur, Road to Genocide
Rockville MD, USA

Voices for Sudan
Jimmy Mulla, Founder and President
Washington, DC, USA

Waging Peace
Olivia Warham, Director
London, UK

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