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I have chosen to use this column space to briefly profile the plight of the people of Darfur in the Sudan and ask for your help. Since 2003 more than 400,000 have been killed, 2.5 million people have been displaced, and the atrocities are ongoing. Beginning on Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday in January, people across this country have begun writing to our President and asking him to demonstrate authentic leadership in pursuit of peace with 1. the immediate deployment of UN peacekeepers; 2. demanding a no-fly zone over Darfur; 3. freezing assets of all Sudanese officials involved in the genocide; and 4. putting pressure on China, a major buyer of Sudan's oil, to use its economic leverage to hold the Sudanese government accountable. The killing has now spread to the neighboring countries of Chad and Central African Republic. Deteriorating security has forced many humanitarian groups to evacuate.  As a child of Dr. King's legacy, I am asking you today to write a letter to President George Bush and ask for action for our brothers and sisters in Darfur.  It can't wait!

Send your letter to:

President George W. Bush

Washington DC 20515