Genocide in Darfur

The Honorable George W. Bush The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Bush, Genocide is taking place in Darfur, Sudan. On September 9, 2004 your Administration rightfully acknowledged this fact, but the U.S. has failed to take sufficient action to stop the violence. Up to 400,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been displaced, their livelihoods and villages destroyed by Sudanese government forces and their proxy militias. We call on you to assert U.S. leadership by redeploying troops from the quagmire in Iraq to the Darfur region of Sudan where they could make an immediate difference to the security and safety of millions of displaced and hungry people. One of our civilization's centers was in Sudan, in the ancient city of Meroe, on the Nile River, later part of Axum, its geoarchaeology published in "American Antiquity". It is thought, rightly or wrongly, that the "Ark of the Covenant" is held there. The United States has a unique capacity and clear obligation to take immediate action. Unless there is an urgent international intervention in Darfur, up to a million people may be dead by the end of this year. Sincerely, George J. Myers, Jr. BA Anthropology