WHEREAS, the government of Sudan has engaged in genocidal acts against its own black African population in Darfur¹, the Nuba Mountains, Upper Nile, and southern Sudan, and as the Sudanese government has and continues to sponsor the attacks of armed Islamic militia, known by the name janjaweed²; and 

WHEREAS, the military and militia of the Sudanese government are responsible for bombing villages and hospitals, gang-raping civilians³, abducting civilians into slavery, burning civilians alive in their homes, and using forced starvation as a weapon of war⁴; and   

WHEREAS, the Sudanese government is responsible for the death of two million southern Sudanese over the last two decades and, in the last year alone, the death of 70,000 Darfuris⁵; and   

 WHEREAS, in September 2004, U.S. Secretary of State, Colin Powell, declared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, that the Sudanese government and the Sudanese government-sponsored janjaweed have and continue to commit genocide⁶; and   

 WHEREAS, both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate have declared, by unanimous votes, that the Sudanese regime of dictator Omar al-Bashir is committing genocide⁷; and   

WHEREAS, the government of Sudan has for years been designated a state-sponsor of terrorism by the U.S. government; and   

 WHEREAS, international companies, by conducting business operations in Sudan, not only provide critical financial and commercial assistance to the Sudanese economy, but also provide both moral and political cover to the Khartoum regime; and   

WHEREAS, the policy and practice of genocide is abhorrent to the moral and political values of the students of UC Irvine, the people of the United States, and, indeed, democratic and free societies everywhere; 

THEREFORE LET IT BE RESOLVED, that ASUCI acknowledges the actions taken by the Committee on Investments on November 14th to requesting UCOP to develop a reasonable divestment plan and present it at the January 2006 Regents meeting

LET IT BE FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Associated Students of University of California Irvine urge the Regents to approve the divestment plan,

LET IT FINALLY BE RESOLVED that the attached letter be sent to Board of Regents stating ASUCI's official support for the divestment from the Sudan.

   Footnotes:  

1. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/08/04/world/main634065.shtml  
2. Report of the International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur to the United Nations Secretary-General, pg. 63-70 
3. Human Rights Watch, http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2004/07/19/darfur9096.htm, http://www.hrw.org/video/2005/musa/  
4. Reeves, Eric.  "Report of the International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur: A critical analysis (Part I).” www.sudanreeves.org  2 February 2005.  
5. http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/10/17/un.sudan/ 
6. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/08/04/world/main634065.shtml 
7. http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/sudanactionpr72304.pdf