We like this George...thank goodness someone is out there talking about Darfur and the fact that the UN is removing forces...say what?!?
"The address by Clooney and Wiesel comes as the African Union prepares to withdraw its peacekeeping troops from Darfur on Sept. 30. In August the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution to deploy more than 20,000 of its own troops in the region, but the Sudanese government has refused.
"On Oct. 1, it won't just be the Janjaweed raping and murdering with impunity, or (rebel leader Mini Arkoi) Manawi's SLA (Sudanese Liberation Army) slaughtering the Fur tribes," Clooney said Thursday. "With no protection, all the aid workers will leave immediately, and the two and a half million refugees who depend on that aid will die." " "The address by Clooney and Wiesel comes as the African Union prepares to withdraw its peacekeeping troops from Darfur on Sept. 30. In August the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution to deploy more than 20,000 of its own troops in the region, but the Sudanese government has refused.
