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 Joe Madison-President of the Sudan Campaign-Speach at Sudan Embassy Today
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Statement Against Genocide in the Darfur Region of Sudan, Africa
Joe Madison
President of the Sudan Campaign
Sudan Embassy
Washington, DC
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Today a Coalition of Conscience has stepped forward to declare in a single voice, “Enough is Enough.” ”We are representatives of individuals, groups and organizations that will not stand silently by while genocide is being committed against Africans in Sudan.
Ten years ago, the world stood idly by as 800,000 Rwandans were slaughtered. Today the human destruction unfolding in the Darfur region of Sudan could potentially be greater.
What is happening in Darfur is nothing short of criminal. The acts of violence and destruction are not random or a result of war. Simply put, they are by-products of ethnic cleansing and a scorch earth policy.
Without immediate action over 350,000 men, women and children will lose their lives in the next nine months from starvation and disease.
Some 1.1 million people have been driven from their homes; many lack water, food and sanitation.
35,000 are already dead
Women, and girls as young as 12 have been raped outside of refugee camps
Drinking wells have been poisoned
Villages destroyed by aerial bombardments.
The Sudanese government incorrectly believes that if it denies the by-products of genocide; hunger, malnutrition, and epidemic disease, then they and the governments of the world don’t have to address the “genocide”. Sudan’s plan is as evil as Nazi Germany’s “Final Solution”; use government supplied and sponsored militias to drive the people out of their villages and then allow starvation and disease to finish the job.
Sudan may continue their official denials, but like Abraham Lincoln said, “ It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all the people all the time.”
Therefore, we are asking all people of conscience world-wide to speak now for those in Darfur whose lives have been undervalued and marginalized. We are calling for demonstrations at Sudanese Embassies around the world and continued demonstrations here in Washington, DC and at the United Nations in New York City.
Concerted international pressure was required to end the 20-year civil war in Sudan that took 2 million lives. It will take an even greater intensity to end the genocide in Darfur. We cannot turn our backs as many did 10 years ago in Rwanda.
Mr. President, Secretary of State Powell and U.N. Secretary General Annan, call it like you see it in Sudan, read my lips, “It is genocide pure and simple.”
There is still just enough time to stop another African genocide, but we must take action now.
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