Darfur, Sudan - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Darfur, Sudan Index / Locations Transcripts Scott Gration ...he kicked out thirteen NGOs out of Darfur , basically all the NGOs. So we went t... ...are happening. Plus, we had a war in Darfur that was still continuing to simmer. A... ...displaced people, who were in Darfur . So a week after I was appointed, w... ...and you lose all those people out in Darfur , there's a good chance that you'r... ...percent of the structure within Darfur without skipping a beat. That was th... ...several times. It happened again in Darfur . I knew that we were going to have t... ...we were going to have to end the war in Darfur . So I talked to President [Idriss... ...we're on the cusp of getting peace in Darfur for the first time since the genocide... ...can make some victories. So solving the Darfur problem, implementing the Comprehensiv... ...The first was to solve the problem with Darfur and get that war stopped, and let th... ...voice to the civilian population in Darfur , and to start talks where th... ...were involved with ending the war with Darfur , key players who negotiated th... ...They're just keeping that war going in Darfur and we've got to stop this. We've go... ...and the lethality that we're seeing in Darfur , and that's going to happen by cuttin... ...helping to cut off the northern axis of Darfur and I needed him to cut off the wester... ...eastern front, but the western side of Darfur . And he committed to doing it. H... ...could do, from Kampala to help with the Darfur situation. But at least he offered t... ...were his surrogate militia force in Darfur . And then Bashir was funding thi... ...victim side. They saw the bombings in Darfur as something that had to stop, and ... ...but we had a group of people who saw Darfur as the last good genocide, I believe... ...six thousand people a day are dying in Darfur ?” Of course, a huge, big hand... ...Africa, we had the Fur—where the name Darfur comes from. The Zaghawa, the Masalit... ...dollars, of which 237 thousand went to Darfur . At least those are the numbers that ... ...of meetings. There was a lot of “Save Darfur ” stuff. This was all happening, bu... ...I can start speaking at all the Save Darfur meetings. And when I started speakin... ...that were making money off of Darfur . There were diaspora, people that ha... ...incentive—zero—for Bashir to help us in Darfur , for Bashir to help us with th... ...million people that are going to die in Darfur if we don't make a difference. And I'v... ...about what are we going to call Darfur , President Obama finally said, “W... ...you want to put in sanctions like the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act, if yo... Show more... Hadi Pir ...think. He was involved in, I think, the Darfur genocide. He prosecuted some of th... ...or leaders who were involved in the Darfur genocide. We put the case together wit... Mark Lippert ...And then the humanitarian situation in Darfur . We had tried to get a visa int... Samantha Power ...like Côte d'Ivoire, or South Sudan, or Darfur . And again, it doesn't mean we alway... ...action to stop the genocide in Darfur . This is, again, back in 2005, 2006... ...talk about improving peacekeeping in Darfur without talking about which countrie... Johnnie Carson ...Janjaweed and the irregular military in Darfur , we will relieve some of the sanction... Karen Richardson ...of times. People wanted to know—and Darfur was such a big—especially when you hav... ...people were caring about. Genocide in Darfur was one of them. When you kind of ge... John Podesta ...We saw that maybe first play out in Darfur . We saw it play out in Syria. We se... Related Topics go to the Gun Control Gun Control go to the Education Education go to the Republican Opposition Republican Opposition go to the Counterterrorism Counterterrorism go to the Public Health Public Health