Sudan: Words are not enough

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The stakes are no longer in question. Top U.S. aid officials last week forecast as many as a million deaths in Darfur this summer, the tragic cost of a government-created famine. Unless the G8 leaders make good on their words immediately with intense international pressure that demands accountability and corrective action by Khartoum, helpless lives will remain imperilled and countless deaths will result.
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Thousands have been slain, tens of thousands raped and brutalized, 1.2 million displaced from their homes, and at least 120,000 have fled to neighbouring Chad as refugees.

Across Darfur, settlements by the hundreds lie in smoking ruin. Internally displaced Darfurians now live in fear in squalid, government-controlled camps patrolled by the janjaweed. Abuse and attacks continue: militia members rape women regularly; men who try to leave to gather food for their families are sometimes gunned down.

Relief supplies, including food, water and medicine, are often being obstructed by government design. Yet Khartoum's cruelty in Darfur has largely slipped below the West's radar screen in part because the Sudanese government has refused visas to many humanitarian workers and journalists.
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[Sliverofhope]

1. Kick

Is it too naive to believe anything will be done?

[struggle4progress]

2. No. It's worth making noise about this.

[opihimoimoi]

3. When will America invade to give them FREEDOM TOO?

You just know they have those pesky WsMD and gonna be using them soon.

[struggle4progress]

4. I want an international effort to stop the genocide.