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Cummings Statement on Arrest of Colleagues Protesting Darfur Genocide
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Washington, D.C.— Today, Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) released the following statement in response to the arrest of five House members during the Direct Action on Darfur rally this morning outside the Sudanese embassy:
“I completely support the efforts of my colleagues this morning in protesting the atrocities that have been occurring in the Darfur region of Sudan. For too long, the people of Darfur have been subjected to violence and abuse that we cannot even begin to imagine, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of families being forced to flee from their homes.
“It is critical that we hold the Sudanese government to its word in measures introduced last Friday to ‘revitalize and strengthen the delivery of humanitarian services in Darfur,’ particularly in light of the expulsion last month of 13 international NGO’s and the government-forced closing of 3 Sudanese NGO’s. I am fully confident in the abilities President Obama’s appointment of Scott Gration as the U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan, and it is my hope that this Administration will at last bring an end to the gross violence taking place in Darfur. We cannot allow this genocide to continue.”
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