Compilation Raises Money for Genocide-Stricken Sudan

Hip-hop/electronic music label Waxploitation has announced it will release a charity CD to assist the fight against genocide in Sudan. The CD, titled Genocide in Sudan, is slated for a late November release and will include System of a Down, Gorillaz, Jill Scott, Jurassic 5, Kinky, Yoko Ono, Danger Mouse, The Pretenders, Mark Farina, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, DJ Spooky featuring Lee “Scratch” Perry, Toots & The Maytals featuring Bunny Wailer, Tortoise, Bad Religion and more. More than half the album will be comprised of exclusive songs and rarities.

According to the United Nations, the conflict in Sudan has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with more than one million people driven from their homes and up to 50,000 people killed by government supported militias. The systematic rape of women and the murder of children has also been widely reported.

”We’re trying to address two things with this CD,” says Waxploitation CEO Jeff Antebi, the album’s executive producer. “The first is to get the United Nations to declare the ongoing atrocities a genocide, so that real action can take effect to stop what is obviously an ‘ethnic cleansing’ taking place, in violation of the 1948 Geneva Convention. The second is to raise money for the dire relief situation effecting over one million innocent civilians who might die from starvation and disease if aid does not reach them right now.”

Waxploitation will donate all of the profits from Genocide in Sudan to the United Nations Refuge Agency and UNICEF.

The CD will be available at most major retailers as well as at www.waxploitation.com/genocide.

Contributing: CNN

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