PRINTER'S NO. 1785
No. 301 Session of 2006
INTRODUCED BY A. WILLIAMS, MAY 2, 2006
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, MAY 2, 2006
A RESOLUTION
1 Urging the President and the Congress of the United States to
2 bring humanitarian assistance and lasting peace to the Darfur
3 region.
4 WHEREAS, Darfurians are enduring systematic massacre, rape
5 and starvation; and
6 WHEREAS, The Government of the Republic of the Sudan has
7 supported and assisted Arab Janjaweed militia in a campaign to
8 burn villages and kill or displace black Africans of Darfur; and
9 WHEREAS, Some 1.8 million displaced Darfurians live in camps
10 in Darfur; and
11 WHEREAS, Hundreds of thousands of Darfurians have fled into
12 Chad as refugees; and
13 WHEREAS, These displaced populations survive only where
14 international humanitarian assistance is available; and
15 WHEREAS, Continuing ethnic violence and the continuing
16 presence of government-backed militias in rural areas keep these
17 displaced persons from returning to their homes; and
18 WHEREAS, Without international support for African Union
1 peacekeepers and intervention to stop the atrocities, up to 1
2 million people could die in Darfur by the end of the year;
3 therefore be it
4 RESOLVED, That the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 urge the President and the Congress of the United States to
6 bring humanitarian assistance and lasting peace to the Darfur
7 region; and be it further
8 RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to
9 the President of the United States, to the presiding officers of
10 each house of Congress and to the members of Congress from
11 Pennsylvania.
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