No legitimacy for Bashir

No legitimacy for Bashir
Dear osman,
The U.S. should not recognize the results of the Sudanese election since the
conditions for truly free and fair elections are not in place.
Tell President Obama: No legitimacy for Bashir.
Imagine an election where the government sends in troops to break up a political
rally, arrest and jail the candidate and supporters who attend, and then arrest and beat the journalists who try to tell the story of what happened.
That’s the reality of election season in Omar al-Bashir’s Sudan.
With less than 90 days until the election, the Sudanese people lack the most basic
political freedoms they need to determine their destiny.
Send a letter to President Obama today and demand that without these freedoms, the
United States and the world must not recognize the results of an illegitimate
electoral process.
Just days ago, Secretary of State Clinton called on Sudan “to suspend elements of
the national security and public order laws that are incompatible with free and fair
elections. There must be no efforts to restrict freedom of speech and assembly. And
there must be no prohibitions on peaceful protests.”
In Sudan, the conditions for truly free and fair elections are not in place.
Bashir’s regime refuses to guarantee basic political freedoms for
self-determination: the freedoms of association, movement, assembly and speech;
freedom of the press; equal access to the media; protection from violence when
voting; and allowing independent monitoring of the election for fraud and
intimidation.
We can’t allow a fraudulent election process to give legitimacy to a genocidal regime.
And without scrutiny by the Obama administration and the international community,
the elections will deliver the sort of legitimization that Bashir desires.
Tell President Obama not to recognize the results of an illegitimate election. Tell
him not to allow a fugitive of justice from the International Criminal Court to
legitimize his brutal dictatorship.
This is just the beginning of our campaign to make sure the U.S. government and
other international leaders do not legitimize the Sudanese election as long as the
political freedoms necessary for free and fair elections do not exist.
The people of Sudan need our support. Send a letter to President Obama now urging
him not to recognize an illegitimate election.
We will be in touch with you in the weeks to come with more ways you can get involved.
Sincerely,
Mark Lotwis
Save Darfur Coalition
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