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...Call it civil war. Call it ethnic cleansing. Call it genocide ... the reality is the same. There are people in Darfur who desperately need the help of the international community." COLIN POWELL, U.S. Secretary of State, urging the United Nations Security Council to act in war-torn Sudan...
...kill all blacks and even kill our cattle when they have black calves." JANJAWEED MILITIA MEMBER, as quoted by a refugee from Darfur, Sudan, in a U.S. report investigating whether the militia's actions there constitute genocide...
Slow Going In Darfur To ratchet up the pressure on the Sudanese government - which has promised to disarm Arab militiamen accused of killing 30,000 and forcing more than 1.4 million from their homes - United Nations special representative Jan Pronk and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw made separate visits to the country's western Darfur region. Pronk will give a report to the Security Council this week. If Khartoum has not made progress it could face international sanctions. Pronk said that Khartoum had taken some positive steps - setting aside safe areas, for instance - but that violence continues. After touring...
...Accountability for Sudan Simon Robinson's report "Nowhere to Hide" [July 5], on the humanitarian crisis and the genocidal atrocities affecting the Darfurians, non-Arab blacks of Sudan's Darfur region, left me disgusted. I'm convinced that our world is doomed to a brutal and sad end. The article noted, "The U.N. and the U.S. do not call the pogroms genocide?in part because doing so could oblige the international community to intervene to save the Darfurians." Excuse me, but what is so wrong with taking action? We cannot afford to wait for 500,000 people...
Simon Robinson's report "Nowhere to Hide" [July 5], on the humanitarian crisis and the genocidal atrocities affecting the Darfurians, non-Arab blacks of Sudan's Darfur region, left me disgusted. I'm convinced that our world is doomed to a brutal and sad end. The article noted, "The U.N. and the U.S. do not call the pogroms genocide--in part because doing so could oblige the international community to intervene to save the Darfurians." Excuse me, but what is so wrong with intervention? Already 10,000 people have been killed and a million forced to leave their homes...