Friday, March 16, 2007

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epostsd by alrabae adam ezaldeen Coff e shop to brew funds for Darfur relief

Union City business will donate 2 days' income to Doctors Without Borders
By Matthew Artz, STAFF WRITER
Article Last Updated: 03/16/2007 02:28:23 AM PDT
UNION CITY — Paddy's Coffee House will do its part today and Saturday to help victims of war crimes in Darfur.
Every cent the cafe takes in those days will be donated to Doctors Without Borders, a relief organization operating in the far western region of Sudan where observers say 200,000 people have been killed and 2million others have been forced to flee their homes.
"No one really knows about what is happening there," said Paddy Iyer, the shop's owner. "I figured this is one way of telling people, 'Look at what is going on.'"
At 6 p.m. today, representatives from the San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition will discuss what has transpired in the region.
Paddy's also will show photographs taken in Darfur and screen a short film about the violence there, which human rights groups have said amounts to ethnic cleansing.
Fighting in Darfur began in 2003 when the Sudanese government unleashed a militia of Arabic-speaking Muslim herdsman to quell a rebel insurgency. The rebel groups are made up of non-Arab Muslims who said the Sudanese government had neglected the impoverished region.
Refugees have said the militia, known as the Janjaweed, rides into villages, killing men, raping women and stealing whatever they can find.
Congress and former Secretary of State Colin Powell have said a genocide is taking place in the region

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