Another Sudanese child to  Mourn for.... Another Reason for You  to Speak Out	Want to Know Why So Many People Say NATO  Can Stop the Genocide in Sudan? Fact:  The Genocide In Kosovo WAS STOPPED Quickly  By NATO'S Combined Strength
Click The Pages Below - HOME Page The NATO Solution A How-To-GUIDE Memorial Page	Our "How-To" Guide is based on the work of a small Group of Citizens Who helped Save 600 Sudanese Lives _______________ Our Emails Will Help You With: * How to Get Legislators to Act * Tips on Building a Group * Updates on Successful Actions * Enable Us to Tell Lawmakers and Media   about the growing numbers of Worldwide Concern Get our free Emails with more help to Stop the Genocide in Sudan Email: State,Region,orCountry: To Receive Updates You Must Open the First Email  and Click on the Link Inside to Confirm Your Request We Will Not Share Your Email With Anyone ___________________________________________ On January 26, 2006 We received this E-Mail from Washington, D.C.  "...Your efforts on the bilateral side are working. Don't stop...." It is from a key Foreign Policy person - in a top office of  the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee _________________________________________ In Fact, The GENOCIDE IN KOSOVO WAS STOPPED QUICKLY BY NATO'S  COMBINED STRENGTH  The Powerful NATO Countries Now Include - Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain Turkey, United Kingdom, and United States. ______________________ 71% said Yes - When asked if NATO, including the US, Should Assist the African Union Peacekeeping Force in Darfur From a June 2005 Program on International Policy Attitude Poll of Americans (Click Above Line to See Poll) _____________________________________ "The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is for Good Men to Do Nothing.".........Edmund Burke ____________________________________ "Seven in 10 support the United States imposing a "no-fly-zone" over Darfur to prevent Sudanese planes from bombing civilians. From a June 2005 Program on International Policy Attitude Poll of Americans _____________________________________ - Our "How-To" Guide Has Already Helped Save 600 Lives - Our "How-To" GUIDE of a Citizens' Campaign That Helped Save 600 Sudanese Lives Was Written to Help Citizens of the NATO Countries Reach and Persuade their Lawmakers to Bring in NATO Military Help - It Has Methods to Get the  Real Help that Stopped the Genocide in Kosovo. ________________________________________ We received this E-Mail from the American Red Cross.... "There's some really great movement going on now.  You're doing a superb job of keeping  Sudan issues before the right people. Thanks,"    .......Ron Speakes, American Red Cross _________________________________________ WITHOUT MORE COST and OTHER SOUND REASONS NATO IS THE FORCE TO STOP GENOCIDE NATO was the critical solution to stopping the Genocide in Kosovo -There is a proven Formula for Stopping a Genocide. Read what an Internationally Respected Group just had to say about the African Union Mission in Sudan: March 17, International Crisis Group New Report - "The small African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) has reached its military and political limits", says John Prendergast, Crisis Group Senior Africa Adviser. "There's just no way AMIS can give civilians the protection they need and prevent this war now escalating Writing in the Boston Globe on October 24, 2005 - Robert I. Rotberg is director of the Program on Intrastate Conflict at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and president of the World Peace Foundation in referring to restraining the janjaweed (killing force in Sudan): "...So would the insertion of NATO or European Union troops into Darfur with a clear mandate not to watch, but forcibly to prevent further losses of life. Annan could and should demand such action before thousands more are killed senselessly across the desert wastes of Darfur." ".....''NEVER AGAIN!" promised Washington, London, Brussels and the United Nations after the massacres in Bosnia, Cambodia, and Rwanda. But the killing fields of Darfur are more than two years old, and still the world permits innocent farmers, children, and displaced people to be killed and women repeatedly raped. What is to be done? Despite the presence of African Union military observers, displaced people living in squalid encampments in Darfur and along the western border have been attacked by marauding janjaweed... Their limited and constrained mandate and their insufficient numbers (not yet at the 7,000 target strength for a war-ravaged area the size of France) give the African Union effort more of a cosmetic than a meaningful role in damping down the persistent conflict between the government-backed janjaweed from northern Darfur and their prey from southern Darfur." _________________________________________ New York Times - November 29, 2005 - Nicholas D. Kristof in his Column: What's to Be Done About Darfur? said: "...Mr. Bush is paralyzed for the same reasons as his predecessors. There is no great public outcry, there are no neat solutions, we already have our hands full, and it all seems rather distant and hopeless. But Darfur is not hopeless. Here's what we should do. "Second, the U.S. needs to push for an expanded security force in Darfur. The African Union force is a good start, but it lacks sufficient troops and weaponry. The most practical solution is to "blue hat" the force, making it a U.N. peacekeeping force built around the African Union core. It needs more resources and a more robust mandate, plus contributions from NATO or at least from major countries like Canada, Germany and Japan..." Third, we should impose a no-fly zone. The U.S. should warn Sudan that if it bombs civilians, then afterward we will destroy the airplanes involved. ________________________________________ Writing in the Washington Post in her article - Why Darfur Can't Be Left to Africa on Sunday August 7, 2005 Susan E. Rice who is a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution. She served as assistant secretary of state for African affairs from 1997 to 2001 said: "...African Union resistance will be great, but may be mitigated if the NATO troops wear the blue helmets of the United Nations and receive the blessing of and funding from the U.N. Security Council. The government of Sudan will vigorously oppose a strengthened mandate and the inclusion of Western forces. China may use its Security Council veto to protect its oil partner, Sudan, from a U.N. force. But by what twisted logic should the perpetrators of genocide be allowed to engineer a veto of international action? In the end, what matters isn't merely a matter of NATO logistics or U.N. mechanics. The bigger issue is whether countries such as the United States and international groups such as NATO and the A.U. embrace an emerging international norm that recognizes the "responsibility to protect" innocent civilians facing death on a mass scale and whose governments cannot or will not protect them. This norm should prevail preferably with U.N. assent, but without it if necessary. That's why NATO was right to act in Kosovo, even when Russia prevented U.N. authorization. If Sudan opposed NATO participation in Darfur, the alliance would have to make more of a military commitment than just back-stopping the A.U., but Sudan is hardly Serbia. Unless we are prepared to accept that African lives are less important than European lives, why would we do less in Sudan? Never is the international responsibility to protect more compelling than in cases of genocide. Genocide is not a regional issue. A government that commits or condones it is not on a par with one that, say, jails dissidents, squanders economic resources or suppresses free speech, as dreadful as such policies may be. Genocide makes a claim on the entire world and it should be a call to action whatever diplomatic feathers it ruffles. Americans and Europeans can make several excuses for continuing to watch from the sidelines, but none is entirely persuasive. U.S. and NATO forces are overstretched in Afghanistan and Iraq, but NATO announced last October that its Response Force has reached 17,000 troops and is "ready to take on the full range of missions." Western military intervention in another Muslim country could create a new front for jihadist attacks. However, it is hard to see how allowing this fear to deter us from saving Muslim lives would salve anti-American hostility in the Muslim world." ___________________________ SIMPLY - THE AFRICAN UNION "OBSERVER" FORCE NOT Having the "MANDATE" Means - They CANNOT - REPEAT - CANNOT - STOP THE KILLINGS!! This U.S. Resolution's Complement in the House of Representatives (Lantos-Pitts Resolution) needs the support and strength of NATO troops. NEED MORE PROOF of THE GRAVE INADEQUACY IN SUDAN??? Read What Else Senator Biden said In Senate Resolution 383 - Urgently Calling for More NATO Help: "In July of 2004, Congress declared the actions that were taking place in Darfur, Sudan genocide. Two months later, the administration issued a report which reached the same conclusion. In the 17 months since then, little has changed for the people of Darfur. Two million people have been chased from their homes, 3 million rely on international aid, and over 200,000 are refugees in Chad. The security situation in Darfur remains dire. The Secretary General and other United Nations officials have warned that the region is on the verge of chaos. In parts of Darfur, the U.N. and other aid agencies have had to pull back staff. The U.N., led by the United States, has taken the first step towards authorizing a peacekeeping force, but it could be a year from now--a year--before such a force completely deploys." " What are the men, women and children of Darfur supposed to do in the meantime? Hope for the best? Keep their fingers crossed that they are not attacked by the janjaweed, or caught in the cross-fire between the government and rebel forces?" -----THE CONCLUSION----- IT COULD BE A YEAR FROM NOW - A YEAR- BEFORE A PEACEKEEPING FORCE COMPLETELY DEPLOYS!! IF WE DON'T DO ANYTHING - OR THE SAME - WILL THERE BE ANY PEOPLE LEFT TO SAVE IN A YEAR - SOME ARE ASKING??? __________________ Free Sudan Now www.freesudannow.org Email: jethro@freesudannow.org (c)copyright 2006 _________________