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Hollywood star and activist George Clooney on Tuesday urged the international community to use illegal funds from Sudan, hoping that financial pressures would change the calculation for generals who violently crack down on pro-democracy protests.
Clooney – a long-time human rights activist in the Darfur region of western Sudan – noted that the famous Janjaweed militia were involved in both abuses in Darfur and in the West Bank. repression of demonstrations last week.
Dozens of people were killed when paramilitary forces forcibly dispersed a sit-in of weeks in front of army headquarters, which had deposed veteran leader Omar al-Bashir. but repressed the protesters' persistent claims for a rapid transition to a civilian regime.
Clooney, in a joint tribune written with former US official John Prendergast, said the generals feared losing a contract after "looting the country with impunity for 30 years".
The two men claimed that The Sentry, an initiative they had founded to track down dirty money, had raised money laundering in Sudan as the crisis intensified.
"Freezing and seizing some of these badets – and blocking some of those in charge of the international financial system – would be a major and unused lever for peace and human rights," wrote Clooney and Prendergast in Politico.
"By creating significant financial consequences for the regime's leaders and their trading badociates, diplomats from Africa, Europe and the United States will be able to influence the cost-benefit calculation of the generals. from Khartoum, "they wrote.
They said they fear that US emissaries, including Tibor Nagy – the top US diplomat for Africa, who is due to travel to Khartoum this week – are seeing their calls "falling in the ears". a deaf person "without parallel measures being taken in the generals' portfolios.
Despite Western criticism of the repression, Clooney and Prendergast noted that the generals continue to enjoy the support of the Arab Gulf States, China and Russia.
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