Mia Farrow Speaks Out About Bush's Sanctions Against Sudan

Mia Farrow, actress and activist, spoke on National Public Radio (NPR) yesterday about the situation in Darfur in Sudan. She's been working to bring attention to Darfur and to take action to make changes in the region. Yesterday, she spoke on NPR in response to President Bush's statement about Darfur, that sanctions would be placed against thirty one companies there. Farrow calls Bush's measure "too little too late."

On her personal website, miafarrow.org, she blogs about Bush's plan.

"I need to comment on this new release by Pres bush. It is the long awaited "Plan B". My reaction is too little too late. It is important to stress that this will not change anything on the ground.

"These sanctions on the 31 companies will. Be at most an inconvenience to a relative few. They will not end the suffering of the people in the camps. Nor, of course will the bring back those who were brutally murdered.

There is no justification for what we did not do. We watched hundreds of thousands of helpless people die. We are still watching.

Surely stronger measures are appropriate in the face of what we have declared genocide.

We need to protect bring those responsible for the suffering of millions to justice. " (www.miafarrow.org)

President Bush has imposed these sanctions because the Sudanese President has not allowed U.N. (United Nations) Peacekeepers into the region.

The conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan began in 2003 as armed conflict began between the Sudanese government and their ethnic militia (referred to as 'Janjaweed') and rebel groups of the Sudanese Liberation Army/Movement (SLA/SLM) and Justice Equality Movement (JEM), according to Human Rights Watch. In the conflict against the rebels, the government has engaged in 'ethnic cleansing' practices against the people who are of the same race as the rebels. Homes and villages have been burned, thousands of women and girls have been raped and beaten, and as of January of 2007, approximately two million displaced people are living in camps and well over 230,000 have fled to Chad and are living in camps there.