SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina: Srebrenica genocide survivors will join actress Mia Farrow's campaign urging China to press Sudan to end abuses in its Darfur region, the actress said Wednesday.

Together with the association Mothers of Srebrenica, Farrow will on Friday light an Olympic-style torch which is touring countries that have suffered genocide.

The Dream for Darfur Olympic torch was lit for the first time in August at the Darfur-Chad border and has so far toured Rwanda, Armenia and Germany. It is planned to pass Cambodia before reaching China in early 2008.

"The aim is to push with all our mind on China which is the only leverage we have to stop the genocide and mass atrocities in Darfur," Farrow said in Sarajevo.

The Mothers of Srebrenica association represents the survivors of Europe's worst massacre since World War II, when Bosnian Serb forces executed some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in this east Bosnian town in 1995. The World Court recognized the massacre as an act of genocide.

"Who better understands that kind of suffering than the survivors here," the actress said.

"We believe it is unacceptable for China to underwrite a genocide in Sudan while enjoying the prestige of hosting the Olympics, a pre-eminent symbol of international cooperation," the New York-based Dream for Darfur advocacy group says on its Web site.

It claims China has protected Khartoum in the U.N. Security Council and sold weapons to the Sudanese government, while making Sudanese oil purchases that help fund the genocidal campaign.

Farrow said "there is no way" the Sudanese government could "thumb its nose at the entire international community and the U.N. for five years without the full support of China."

More than 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been chased from their homes in Darfur since 2003, when tribes of ethnic African farmers rebelled against the Arab-dominated central government, accusing it of neglect and discrimination.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/05/europe/EU-GEN-Bosnia-Darfur.php

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KOMŠIĆ PRIMIO PREDSTAVNIKE ORGANIZACIJE "SAN ZA DARFUR" SARAJEVO, 5. decembra (FENA) - Predsjedavajući Predsjedništva BiH Željko Komšić primio je predstavnike organizacije “San za Darfur”, predvođene američkom glumicom Miom Farrow.

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