Women and children pulled from schools and hospitals and killed by the roadside, hate propaganda filling the airwaves - Rwanda 20 years ago? This is happening right now in South Sudan, and we have the power to help stop it.
Two men are to blame: President Salva Kiir and his former deputy Riek Machar. Locked in a bitter power struggle, both are cynically stoking tensions between ethnic groups that have lived peacefully together for decades. Both men have assets and family abroad. If we hit Kiir and Machar where it hurts -- their wallets -- we can stop this nightmare from spiraling into genocide.
With peace talks slowly resuming, the US and France are calling on the UN Security Council to impose sanctions and deploy more peacekeepers to protect civilians. Russia may try to block action, but even China doesn't want to see this oil-rich nation slide into chaos. So it's winnable - if we act fast. Let's flood key leaders with 1 million voices urging them to pass sanctions and deploy a stronger mission to protect the people of South Sudan.
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/ceasefire_in_south_sudan_rest_cp/?bEOrtgb&v=39580
or contact
the United Nations by filling out this quick online form at
http://www.un.org/en/contactus/ or facebook
https://www.facebook.com/unitednations
and
https://www.facebook.com/unitednationshumanrights and
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Office-of-the-United-Nations-High-Commissioner-for-Human-Rights/198103013660159
UN AMBASSADOR & UNSC PRESIDENT OH JOON:
facebook
https://www.facebook.com/unkoreamission
RUSSIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEY LAVROV:
https://www.facebook.com/MIDRussia
US SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY:
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/usdos
Use the details on the right to call, tweet, and send Facebook messages. Here are some suggested talking points.
-South Sudan is descending into a full-scale ethnic civil war and possibly genocide. Armed groups are continuing to attack, rape and mutilate civilian populations with impunity.
-I appreciate the efforts of some governments to introduce targeted sanctions domestically and at the United Nations Security Council -- freezing assets and a travel ban are important tools to force the two opposing leaders to support a ceasefire.
-But more needs to be done: the UN mission needs more troops and a clearer mandate to protect civilians, and immediate humanitarian assistance is urgently required to tackle the threat of famine.
-I also call on you to ensure that the perpetrators of atrocities are tried by an international court. It's time to take decisive action -- we must not repeat the mistakes of inaction 20 years ago in Rwanda. Never again.
Remember to be polite, you get more with sugar then you do honey (veganized saying... it use to be you get more with honey)
