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Senators Frist and Clinton sign "Save Darfur" postcard
Chairwoman of the Million Voices for Darfur campaign Rev. Gloria White-Hammond with Bill Frist and Hillary Clinton when they signed one of the one million post cards urging President Bush to press for UN protection of the people of Darfur.
Photo: K. McNeely/CWS
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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, MD (R-TN) added their signatures to a post card that 1,000,000 people across the U.S. have signed urging President Bush to advocate for a UN Peacekeeping force to protect the people of Darfur, Sudan.
Since February 2003, the worsening genocide sponsored by the Sudanese government and perpetrated by its "Janjaweed" militia allies has claimed some 400,000 lives and displaced 2.5 million people.
A UN Security Council resolution authorizing a peacekeeping force is under consideration and may be decided in the next two weeks. Nationwide, activists from houses of worship, universities, and other organizations have generated electronic and handwritten postcards to President Bush as part of the Save Darfur Coalition's "Million Voices for Darfur Campaign."
Thousands of peoplerallied in U.S. cities in April to urge President Bush to action.
Allied with non-governmental organizations from Europe, Sudan and the U.S., Church World Service set up hospitals, health services and water supplies for some 300,000 refugees and internally displaced Sudanese from Darfur.
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Lesley Crosson, CWS/New York, 212-870-2676;
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