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March 19, 2012

George Clooney Arrested Protesting for Sudanese Aid Access 
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The actor George Clooney was among more than a dozen people arrested
Friday protesting the treatment of people in Sudan outside the Sudanese
embassy in Washington. Protesters attempted to draw attention to
accusations the Sudanese government is blocking aid from the Southern
Kordofan region near the border with South Sudan. Clooney’s father and
NAACP President Benjamin Jealous were also arrested. Clooney called for
the government to stop killing its people.

George Clooney: "Well, thank you all for coming today. We're here really
to ask two very simple questions. The first question is something
immediate. Immediately we need humanitarian aid to be allowed in to the
Sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.
Immediately. The second thing we are here to ask — it's a very
simple thing — is for the government in Khartoum to stop randomly
killing its own innocent men, women, and children. Stop raping them and
stop starving them — that's all we ask."



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