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      World rallies for Darfur action

      Posted by Jeff from BBC News

      Some 200,000 people have died since the conflict began, according to the UN. Under the slogan "Time is up... protect Darfur", demonstrators will turn round some 10,000 hourglasses filled with fake blood to highlight the continuing violence in Darfur.

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      Arab Nomads, 'Not Pro-Anything,' Also Suffer in Darfur

      Posted by Jeff from Washington Post

      The vast majority of the estimated 450,000 people killed and the 2.5 million displaced in Darfur since 2003 have been black African farmers targeted in a brutal government-led campaign to crush a rebellion. But the conflict has also affected nomadic Arabs, who until recently were largely overlooked by the largest relief effort in the world.

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    • Five African Union soldiers killed in Darfur

      Posted by Jeff from Guardian UK

      Peacekeepers were first deployed in Darfur in August 2004, 18 months after local rebels attacked a military base. In retaliation the government and its proxy militias had launched a scorched earth policy against local sedentary tribes, killing tens of thousands of civilians and displacing more than 2 million people.

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    • Siemens and the moral high ground

      Posted by SoxFirst

      With the latest reports coming in of Sudanese planes bombing Darfur in the four year civil war which has killed 200,000 people and left 2.5 million homeless, Klaus Kleinfeld, the chief of scandal-plagued Siemens says his company might pull out of Sudan for moral reasons.

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    koroth comments on:

    Rights groups bemoan lack of Beijing protests

    Yeah, you’re right about that, but unlike other communist dictatorships China is allowing westernization and capitalism in at the edges. The USSR collapsed, and Venezuela is heading that way, because they didn’t allow it.

    I think it will be interesting to see how that evolves, especially as illegal internet access starts to creep in around the edges.

    It’s a wonder that there are still people in the west singing the virtues of communism. Some of them teach in and run our colleges and Universities.

     

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    9:10 am 8/21/08
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    jsmersh comments on:

    Rights groups bemoan lack of Beijing protests

    Communist dictatorship suppresses dissent.

    What’s the matter, you thought the Chinese government was nice?

    Think of the most oppressive government action you can.

    Then check to see if China has done it.

    You’ll find it has.

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    12:21 am 8/21/08
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    koroth comments on:

    Rights groups bemoan lack of Beijing protests

    Well, it’s China. Is anyone surprised by this?

    I think that as time goes on China will find it increasing hard to keep that iron lock on society and still allow modernization. It will be interesting see see how that resolves.

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    10:47 pm 8/20/08
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    mynaffy comments on:

    Rights groups bemoan lack of Beijing protests

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    8:36 pm 8/20/08
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    Billbar comments on:

    Grim New Turn May Harden Darfur Conflict

    here’s something related and informartive.

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    11:06 am 10/23/06
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    Jeff is the founder of NewsCloud. He is also a freelance writer and blogs at Idealog.

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