In what may be the worst human rights tragedy of our time, nearly a half-million state-sanctioned murders have occurred and continue as you read this. New reports of armed officers gang raping and torturing children (some as young as four!) simply cannot be ignored. It is time for all of us as people of faith to lift our voices to demand that President Bush take firm and decisive leadership to stop the killing.
We wish that were all, but it isn't. The violence has driven people from their farms, livestock and crops have been destroyed, created a massive famine. Those who have not been killed by the government-sponsored Janaweed militia are in danger of dying of starvation and disease. Most of them are children.
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