[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 122 (Thursday, July 31, 2014)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1291]
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                   REMEMBERING THE GENOCIDE IN DARFUR

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                         HON. JAMES P. McGOVERN

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, July 31, 2014

  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to remind my colleagues of 
the ongoing genocide in Darfur, which began in 2003 and continues 
unabated. During that time more than 300,000 Darfuris have been 
murdered, countless numbers of women and children as young as 6 years 
of age have been brutally raped. Millions have been left homeless. The 
International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese 
President Omar Bashir for crimes against humanity and, in July 2010, 
issued a warrant for his arrest on charges of genocide.
  The government of Sudan, however, has yet to turn him over, and since 
the issuance of the warrants, the country has seen increased violence. 
Furthermore, the government's forceful expulsion of humanitarian aid 
agencies from the country has further jeopardized conditions for many 
more thousands of displaced and marginalized civilians. Days, weeks, 
months, years pass and the people of Darfur are not closer to security, 
a just peace, or adequate humanitarian relief. The international 
community must do much more to help the people of Darfur.

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