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Black Star News (http://blackstarnews.com/?c=135&a=3480) publisher’s note: Readers, you all have the power to help end this genocide and other atrocities in Africa ignored by corrupt corporate media. You have to adopt the attitude, “not on my watch” and “not on my tax-payer dollars.” Start by calling ABC news president David Westin at 212-456-777 and denounce the news organization’s journalistic duplicity and send him a copy of Keith Harmon Snow’s article; Please call The White House at 202-456-1414 and ask why President Bush has denounced the Darfur situation but not said a word about genocide of Acholi by a U.S.-sponsored government, in the interest of oil profits; Readers please call The State Department at 202-647-4000 and ask to be transferred to Secretary of State Rice’s office and denounce her silence about the genocide in Acholi; Readers please call Senator Joseph Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at 202-224-5042 and ask him why he’s denounced the situation in Darfur during a recent Presidential candidates’ debate but did not say a word on genocide of Acholi; demand that he hold a hearing of the senate committee; Readers please call the United Nations Secretariat at (212) 963-1234; when the system answers hit “0” and you’ll get an operator, ask to be transferred to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s office and demand that he denounce the genocide in Acholi; American readers please call your Senator and Congressman and demand that he or she denounce this U.S.-sponsored genocide; Please forward your elected representatives this article and also send it to everyone on your e-mail list; Readers please call The New York Times’ publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger at (212) 556-1234; hit “0” when the system picks up and ask for Sulzberger’s office—demand that he tell his editors to stop ignoring this major genocide story; Readers please call The Commonwealth Secretariat in London at 44 20 7747 6380 and ask its Secretary General, Don McKinnon, why Uganda, a country whose civilian and military leadership, including Yoweri Museveni, is being investigated on war crimes allegations by the International Criminal Court (ICC) gets to host this year’s Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting; this is not only a form of obstruction of justice, by tacitly sending a message to the ICC not to pursue its investigation vigorously or return indictments if warranted, but it also amounts to abetting genocide, by deflecting focus away from the crimes and exonerating suspects before investigations on grave allegations are completed; Readers please also forward this article to the the Commonwealth organization’s Director of Communications, Eduardo del Buey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and cc to as many foreign affairs ministers as you can. ICC started its investigation after a complaint was referred by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government under Joseph Kabila according to a front page article in the June 8th, 2006 The Wall Street Journal. Did Don McKinnon, and separately all the officials mentioned above, not read this Wall Street Journal article? The allegations include mass civilian murders, rapes, kidnappings, mutilations, burning of villages, and theft of natural resources, by the Ugandan army and allied militias during Uganda’s occupation of Eastern Congo; these are the similar allegations that have landed former Liberian president Charles Taylor at his current location; the Hague, facing trial. Separately, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in December 2005, ruled in favor of the Congo on the civil aspect, based on similar set of allegations of mass civilian murders, rapes, kidnappings, mutilations, burning of villages, and theft of natural resources, and subsequently ordered Uganda to pay Congo $10 billion dollars (http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/116/10455.pdf). This may suggest the likelihood of a verdict favoring Congo on the war crimes allegations now being investigated by the ICC. Surely, the US was aware of this when it asked Uganda to send troops to Somalia. Readers, more than anything else, do your part in fighting for the victims who are dying from slow-motion genocide in those Uganda camps by sending this article to everyone on your e-mail list and the editors of your local newspapers—even if they don’t pursue the story, at least you know they would have to live with the shame of it. To subscribe to or advertise in New York’s leading Pan
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