Darfur: How many more have to die? (Hentoff)

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In his book, "Night," about Hitler's "final solution," Elie Wiesel asked a question that has never been satisfactorily answered, and now reverberates as the genocide in Darfur continues: "How could it be possible for them to burn children and for the world to remain silent?"

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, who keeps returning to Darfur, trying to make it impossible for the world to say that, alas, it didn't know what was happening there, wrote on June 7:

"Refugees fleeing to Kalma from a village called Saleya described how nine boys were seized by the Janjaweed, stripped naked and tied up, their noses and ears cut off and their eyes gouged out. They were then shot dead and left near a public well. Nearby villagers got the message and fled."

A letter writer to the Times, Frank Skraly, after reading other such reports from Darfur from Mr. Kristof, said: "Whether you lean left or right, stopping the killing in Darfur seems like a no-brainer. What political risk would there be in doing so? A leadership position on this issue would earn President Bush accolades from the holiest of the right, the crunchiest of the left and most everybody in between. So what are we waiting for?" <snip>

http://www.decaturdailydemocrat.com/articles/2005/06/22/news/opinion/editorial02.txt

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