04-28-2006, 05:23 PM
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Congressmen arrested
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Five members of Congress were among 11 people who were arrested during a protest Friday outside the Sudanese embassy staged at a critical moment to call attention to genocidal violence in the Darfur region.
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Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., was one of the lawmakers who were arrested willingly. Lantos, a Holocaust survivor and staunch advocate of human rights, was taken into custody by the U.S. Secret Service along with Reps. James P. McGovern, D-Mass., John W. Olver, D-Mass., James P. Moran, D-Va., and Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas. Also arrested were six members of religious and humanitarian aid organizations.
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Bush supported the protest, not sure if this specifically, so its a bit surprising they are all democrats.
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