الصفقة السرية القذرة بين إدارة اوباما و نظام المجرم البشير

Subject: Press Statement: U.S. ALLOWS BASHIR TO HIRE K STREET LAWYER


Congressman Donald M. Payne
Ranking Member
House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights


For Immediate Release Contact: Algene Sajery
December 17, 2011 202-226-7812
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PAYNE STATEMENT: U.S. ALLOWS BASHIR TO HIRE K STREET LAWYER

Washington- The U.S. Department of Treasury has issued a license to a DC lobbyist allowing him to represent the Republic of Sudan in legal matters, including the removal of U.S. economic sanctions and removal from the State Department’s State Sponsors of Terrorism list.

Congressman Donald M. Payne, Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights released the following statement:

It is absolutely unacceptable that the U.S. has allowed a murderer like Omar Hassan Bashir to hire a Washington emissary to do his bidding. Bashir is an internationally indicted war criminal for the atrocities he perpetrated in Darfur. In the months following South Sudan’s independence this July, Bashir and his thugs have attacked the border regions of Southern Kordofan, Blue Nile and Abyei. There are troubling reports of mass graves and aerial bombings, including the bombing of a refugee camp just over the border in South Sudan. Bashir has blocked humanitarian organizations from accessing the region to provide lifesaving food and health services to his victims.

We must hold Khartoum to account for the continued attack on the Nuba people living in the north and for provoking war with South Sudan. Now is not the time to appease a war lord by dangling carrots and rewarding bad behavior.

The $20,000 per month that Bashir is spending on a Washington lobbyist could be better spent on providing humanitarian support to the people of Darfur, Abyei, Southern Kordofan, and Blue Nile, and on promoting democracy and human rights throughout Sudan.
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Ms. Algene T. Sajery
Democratic Staff Director
House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights
Rep. Donald M. Payne, Ranking Member
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