Proclamation on the Crisis in Sudan
WHEREAS in Darfur, Sudan, an estimated 30,000 innocent civilians have been brutally murdered, more than 130,000 people have been forced from their homes and have fled to neighboring Chad, and more than 1,000,000 people have been internally displaced; and
WHEREAS Andrew Natsios, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, has predicted that 300,000 civilians in Darfur will die within the year under `optimal conditions' in which humanitarian assistance is provided, and that as many as 1,000,000 civilians in Darfur are at risk; and
WHEREAS on July 22, 2004 the U.S. Congress passed resolutions declaring Genocide in Darfur , Sudan ; and
WHEREAS for the first time in its history, the Committee on Conscience of the United States Memorial Museum has declared a "genocide emergency" in the Sudan, indicating that genocide is imminent or is actually happening in the Darfur region; and
WHEREAS as people of conscience, we have a particularly poignant responsibility to speak out against injustice on behalf of vulnerable and disenfranchised people across the globe;
NOW, THEREFORE, WE, THE INTERELIGIOUS COUNCIL OF CENTRAL NEW YORK hereby call upon the United States and the United Nations as leaders of the international community immediately to intervene to stop the killing, the rape, and the destruction of villages, and to assure that humanitarian relief reaches all those in need.
Reverend William Redfield
President
InterReligious Council Board of Directors
Dean Thomas Wolfe
Chair
InterReligious Council Cabinet of Religious Leaders
Dr. James B. Wiggins
Executive Director
InterReligious Council
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