Armenian Americans are joining with human rights advocates and genocide-prevention activists from across America in calling for decisive U.S. action to stop the Sudanese government of indicted war criminal Omar al-Bashir from continuing its brutal onslaught against civilians in Darfur and South Kordofan, reported the Armenian National Committee of America.

Community activists nationwide are raising this urgent crisis with their local legislators, person-to-person, through phone calls, and via on-line advocacy, including through an ANCA action alert that sends pre-drafted WebMail messages to Members of Congress from the ANCA website.

The ANCA action alert stresses that Armenian Americans, as citizens with a direct connection to the Armenian Genocide and an enduring commitment to ending forever the cycle of genocide, bear a special responsibility to prevent atrocities all over the world.

The Webmail letter echoes an earlier call by U.S. Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA) upon President Obama to send former Secretary of State Powell to Khartoum to personally impress upon Sudanese President Omar al Bashir that he must immediately call off his military’s onslaught in Darfur, Abyei, and the South Kordofan region of central Sudan.

It also outlined a number of additional steps that the Administration should take, including: Strengthened United Nations economic, political, and diplomatic sanctions targeting Khartoum - with specific benchmarks, hard deadlines, and concrete consequences; Concerted efforts, in coordination with the United Nations, to ensure that humanitarian provisions – most urgently water, food, and medical supplies - are able to reach at-risk populations, including the establishment of a no-fly zone over South Kordafan; Expanded support for the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) in South Kordafan and the African Union/UN Hybrid Operation (UNAMID) in Darfur.