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A Resolution of the County of Allegheny, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, recognizing and commending local activities in support of ending the genocide in Darfur, and specifically recognizing and commending the Destroyed Villages March and Rally to be held in Pittsburgh on May 18, 2008.
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WHEREAS, the violence conducted by the Armed Forces of Sudan, government-backed Janjaweed militia, and various rebel factions in Darfur, Sudan, has left nearly 2,500,000 people displaced from their homes and up to 400,000 civilians dead; and
WHEREAS, despite the signing of the Darfur Peace Agreement on May 5, 2006, violence, death, and destruction in Darfur continue unabated, threatening the lives of thousands of civilians, humanitarian aid workers, United Nations officials, and African Union international peacekeepers; and
WHEREAS, on July 22, 2004, Congress declared the atrocities unfolding in Darfur as genocide, and on September 9, 2004, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, declared that `genocide has been committed in Darfur, and that, `the [G]overnment of Sudan and the Janjaweed bear responsibility'; and
WHEREAS, on April 18, 2007, President George W. Bush declared at the United States Holocaust Museum, where the Committee on Conscience has spent considerable efforts advocating to end the genocide in Darfur, that the United States has a moral obligation to help end the genocide in Darfur; and
WHEREAS, hundreds of United States faith-based, human rights, humanitarian and youth-led advocacy organizations have established Darfur-related campaigns since the United States declaration of genocide in 2004; and
WHEREAS, hundreds of State and local communities, schools, universities, and individual citizens have mobilized and organized fundraisers, campaigns, and initiatives to help end the genocide in Darfur; and
WHEREAS, over 600 chapters of anti-genocide high school, college and university stude...
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