Charles Rangel: “the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act passed the House today, Wednesday April 5, 2006. This Act calls for action. The…”

“the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act passed the House today, Wednesday April 5, 2006. This Act calls for action. The specific intent and purpose of this Act must be implemented immediately by the Administration. It is too late for more words on the horrors of Darfur no matter how strong the words. As Nicholas Kristoff in his persistent, piercing Times columns has pointed out that for years, we have said ``Never Again, Again.'' And yet, the slow genocide continues in Darfur. Babies die of hunger and thirst, women suffer a deliberate policy of rape; men are castrated and shot in the head. The starvation, the deaths, the burning of villages, the poisoning of wells, the slaughter of domestic animals on which people depend, the brutal killing of children in front of their mothers continues while the world watches. ``Uncover Your Eyes'' Mr. Kristoff tells us. ``Uncover Your Eyes.'' (Nicholas D. Kristoff, June 7, 2005). The killing in Darfur is the first Genocide of the 21st Century. There is only one approach to a genocide: It must be stopped using all necessary means; and those that perpetuate it must be held accountable. There is no excuse for failing to hold accountable those who arm, condone and assist in genocide; most especially the excuse for a failure to hold a government accountable must not be ``the war on terror.'' Those who arm and support the Janjaweed militia as the government in Khartoum continues to do are terrorists.…”