Rally for Action in Darfur

A coalition of people who want action taken to stop the genocide being committed in Darfur are holding a rally in Washington D.C. this weekend on Sunday, April 30th. In addition to the main rally in D.C., there will be other rallies across the nation.

To find out more information on the situation in Darfur and to view past posts on this subject click here.

To find a local rally in your state, click here.

Also check out "Sudan's Bashir Rebuffs U.N. on Peacekeepers" from the Washington Post. As the article reports:

Sudan's president has rejected a U.N. appeal to allow its peacekeepers into the Darfur region to help stem a tide of violence that has left more than 100,000 dead and more than 2 million displaced over the past three years, a senior U.N. official told the Security Council on Wednesday.

The remarks represented a setback for a U.S.-backed proposal to send more than 15,000 U.N. and NATO peacekeepers to Darfur to replace an underequipped African Union force of more than 6,000 troops. The Bush administration has accused Sudan and a government-backed militia of committing genocide in Darfur.

--Tom Hayes