I wonder, what do former Black Panthers and Farrakhan think of Arabs killing Africans?
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--- Begin Message ---The article below from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED]/--------- E-mail Sponsored by Fox Searchlight ------------\ GARDEN STATE: NOW PLAYING IN NY & LA - SELECT CITIES AUG 6 GARDEN STATE stars Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard and Ian Holm. NEWSWEEK's David Ansen says "Writer-Director Zach Braff has a genuine filmmaker's eye and is loaded with talent." Watch the teaser trailer that has all of America buzzing and talk back with Zach Braff on the Garden State Blog at: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/gardenstate/index_nyt.html \----------------------------------------------------------/ Holocaust Museum Calls Crisis in Sudan 'Genocide Emergency' August 1, 2004 By COURTNEY C. RADSCH WASHINGTON, July 31 - The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has elevated its assessment of the crisis in the Darfur region in western Sudan to a "genocide emergency" in response to the increasing level of violence and death. This is the first time in the museum's 11-year history that it has made such a declaration, which is intended to draw world attention to the situation and to apply pressure for a response from Sudan's government. Museum officials say they will open a display about Darfur on Monday to allow to the public to view the devastation in the Darfur region, where government-backed Arab militia members have been attacking black residents, most of them also Muslims. After a unanimous decision by both houses of Congress last week to call the deteriorating situation in Darfur genocide, the designation by the nation's official Holocaust memorial further underscores the urgency of the situation. Representative Tom Lantos, a California Democrat who is the only Holocaust survivor in Congress, said the designation carried "unique moral weight." "I hope it will make people in a decision making position feel morally obligated and inspired to take action," he said, referring to NATO and European countries. The designation of a genocide emergency is the most serious characterization the museum's Committee on Conscience may convey. The designation means that, in its view, genocide is imminent or is occurring. In 2000, the committee issued a genocide watch on Chechnya and a genocide warning on the Congo-Great Lakes region of Africa. Those designations are the two other levels the committee uses to draw attention to such situations. In 2003, the committee also issued a warning for southern Sudan, and earlier this year made the same declaration for Darfur. The three-tiered scale was developed by the museum committee partly in response to the massacres in Rwanda a decade ago. Last Monday, the museum halted normal operations in the Hall of Remembrance to draw attention to Darfur, an area a third of the size of the United States, where experts estimate that 30,000 to 100,000 people have died this year and 1.2 million have been displaced from their homes. In a speech at the museum last Monday, Amal Allogabo, who left Sudan in 1999, said she did not know if her family was alive or dead. Another speaker, Nesse Godin, a Holocaust survivor, urged international action. Jerry Fowler, the staff director of the Committee on Conscience, recently returned from Chad, where he interviewed refugees from Darfur. He said the situation there met the international definition of genocide because the attacks on certain groups by the Janjaweed militias could result in the "physical destruction" of the refugees. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/01/international/africa/01muse.html?ex=1092471205&ei=1&en=32914fba04a75d39 --------------------------------- Get Home Delivery of The New York Times Newspaper. Imagine reading The New York Times any time & anywhere you like! Leisurely catch up on events & expand your horizons. Enjoy now for 50% off Home Delivery! Click here: http://homedelivery.nytimes.com/HDS/SubscriptionT1.do?mode=SubscriptionT1&ExternalMediaCode=W24AF HOW TO ADVERTISE --------------------------------- For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company
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