Why the world is ignoring Darfur: the genocide in Sudan has come and gone from the world's headlines, but persists all the same. Becky Tinsley dissects a continuing betrayal.
New Internationalist › Nbr. 2005, January 2005
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Why the world is ignoring Darfur: the genocide in Sudan has come and gone from the world's headlines, but persists all the same. Becky Tinsley dissects a continuing betrayal.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has made it plain that if the genocide in Rwanda were to happen again, Britain would have a duty to act. In 2001 he told the ruling Labour Party's annual conference that there was a moral duty to prevent such carnage being repeated. President George Bush famously wrote the words 'not on my watch' on a memo summarizing the Clinton Administration's inaction over Rwanda.
The United Nations now acknowledges that in the last two years 180,000 black Africans have died in the Darfur region of Sudan. The British House of Commons...See the full content of this document
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