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This bold action taken by the State of Illinois and Havard UNIVERSITY
are laudable indeed. We hope that these steps will be emulated not
only by the other 49 states in the US but also by other global bodies
with leverage such as EU, AU UN, ECOWAS and SADC more.Africa and the
rest of the world cannot stand hands akimbo while the Sudanese carry
out callous decimation of themselves fuelled by ethic animosity.
PETER VAKUNTA
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From: f ossia <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, June 26, 2005 2:10 pm
Subject: Ill. Law Bans State Investments in Sudan
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> Ill. Law Bans State Investments in Sudan
> By Associated Press
>
> June 25, 2005, 10:19 PM EDT
>
> SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A new state law requires Illinois to divest
> about $1
> billion worth of pension investments in companies that do business
> in Sudan
> to protest the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the country's Darfur
> region.
> Gov. Rod Blagojevich signed the bill into law Saturday, saying it
> makesIllinois the nation's first state to sever all financial ties
> to Sudan. The
> law takes effect in January 2006.
>
> "The people of Illinois will not condone human rights abuses and
> genocide.We will take our money elsewhere," Blagojevich said in a
> statement.
> Similar legislation is pending in other states, and Harvard
> University also
> recently announced plans to stop Sudanese investments.
>
> U.N. officials say at least 180,000 people have died since
> fighting flared
> in the western Sudanese region of Darfur in February 2003. An
> estimated 2
> million others have been forced to flee the region.
>
> The conflict erupted when rebels took up arms against what they
> saw as years
> of state neglect and discrimination against Sudanese of African
> origin. The
> government is accused of responding with a counterinsurgency
> campaign in
> which the ethnic Arab militia, known as Janjaweed, committed wide-
> scaleabuses against ethnic Africans.
>
> A message left at the Sudanese embassy in Washington, D.C.,
> Saturday was not
> immediately returned.
> Copyright 2005 Newsday Inc.
>
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