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Humanitarian Crisis in Darfur

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President Barack Obama plans to withdraw most U.S. troops from Iraq by August 2010 and the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes. Brookings expert Elizabeth Ferris describes how these two decisions will affect the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Iraq and Darfur.

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Tragedy of Falun Gong

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A report by the Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group, entitled “Forget Not the Beijing Olympics’ Victims,” urges readers to remember that despite China’s promises to improve human rights, the Olympics ended up serving as an excuse for the Chinese government to arrest and imprison thousands of people who had shown signs of opposition to the current regime.

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