Countless individual Americans have made this same choice. These States. universities. and individuals have said they do not want their pensions or other investments to support a government that is carrying out mass atrocities against its own people. In this mornings Washington Post. there is a graphic story written by Travis Fox of a visit to a refugee camp at Chad. I know the Presiding Officer has visited the refugee camps in Chad and has seen firsthand what is happening there: 230.000230.000Darfur refugees have streamed across the border and live in 12 United Nationsadministered camps. This heartbreaking story shows an emaciated young boy being fed by his mother. It goes on to say that so many of these children are dying of malnutrition. even in the refugee camps. They are trying to get this poor little boy to eat some food. which he thinks is horrible and spits out. He would rather go hungry than eat what he is being given. These children are dying in these refugee camps and. sadly. more people are streaming to these camps because of the ongoing genocide in Darfur. As many as 450.000 people. according to Human Rights Watch. have died from disease and violence in this genocide. 2.5 million people have been displaced since the fighting began. The United Nations reports that in the second half of the year 2006. 12 humanitarian workers were killed and 38 compounds were attacked.
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