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Linda Baggus of Denver writes:

I have a request for Coloradans regarding the current genocide in Darfur, but first I’d like to share something about myself. I am a ninth-grade English teacher at Alameda High School in Lakewood, and my students and I are reading Night by Elie Wiesel about the Holocaust. The students asked me how people could have let such a terrible thing happen. As part of my answer, I told them that genocide still happens in the world and shared what is happening in Darfur right now. Then I invited them to join me at last Sunday’s rally in Cheesman Park to speak out against the Darfur genocide. To further inform my students, I have arranged a Holocaust survivor and the Colorado Coalition for Genocide Awareness and Action to present to Alameda’s entire ninth grade class. Through these actions, I am trying to do a small part to raise my students’ awareness and to bring a stop to the killing in Darfur.
Now, I get back to my request to you. I hope you too will speak out against the genocide. Please advocate for funding and direct action from U.N. Forces to enforce the no-fly zone in Darfur. Also, call for increased funding for the U.N. peacekeeping force, and encourage all U.S. businesses to cut ties to the Sudan government. If you raise your voice against these atrocities, then you can raise your head high and have a positive answer when young people ask you what you did to stop the genocide in Darfur. Please take action now, and encourage your friends to join you. Thank you.

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READER COMMENTS

Darfur should be attended to. The lives should be saved. No question about it, but will we have the heart to follow up? Will the mainstream of American society have the heart to ensure it is finished when American soldiers are killed? Will we have the heart to keep on when it starts lasting a few years? Or will people start protesting like they do now? Will they demand a pull out when it gets ugly like they do now? And if that does happen, will we accept responsability for the deaths that will occur like after Vietnam in Laos and Cambodia?

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