More than 200,000 killed and 2.5 million in refuge camps and UN is waiting for an invitation from Sudan Govt. to intervene. This reluctance to take proactive steps to prevent further loss of human life is criminal. In 2004 US House of Representatives passed a resolution calling Darfur tragedy a 'Genocide' and asked the administration to consider 'Multilateral or even Unilateral' action to end this genocide.
Sudan-genocide
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The resolution of the US House of Representatives - adopted unanimously by 422 votes and 12 abstentions - says the Bush adminstration should call the atrocities in Darfur "by its rightful name: 'genocide'."
Up to 100 people were allegedly buried here
It urges the Bush administration to consider "multilateral or even unilateral intervention to prevent genocide should the United Nations Security Council fail to act".
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Death toll in Darfur - more than stated
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THE Darfur conflict in Sudan claimed the lives of between 170,000 and 255,000 people in its first 31 months, according to a new estimate by sociologists.
They considered the range of numbers, based on interviews with survivors at refugee camps, to be the minimum death toll from the fighting and genocide.
"The numbers may actually be higher," said John Hagan, of Northwestern University in Illinois. "Our goal is to have an estimate that accurately portrays the scale and urgency of the situation."
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Bush frustrated by UB inaction
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President Bush says he is frustrated by the pace of United Nations action to help civilians displaced by violence in Sudan's western Darfur region. Mr. Bush says the world body may have to send in troops despite objections from the government in Khartoum.
President Bush says he is troubled by reports of escalating violence in Darfur, where more than three years of fighting have killed an estimated 200,000 people.
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Washington chides allies on Darfur crisis
Washington - The United States chided its allies on Thursday for not doing more to force Sudan to accept the deployment of United Nations peacekeepers in its war-torn Darfur region.
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"We would certainly hope that the rest of the world would join us in pressing as hard on this issues as we have," said State Department spokesperson Sean McCormack.
Washington and Britain pushed a resolution through the UN Security Council late last month demanding the deployment of 20 000 soldiers and police to help end what they described as "genocide" in the western Darfur region.
But the resolution is conditional on the Sudan government accepting the deployment, something it has steadfastly refused to do despite intensive diplomatic lobbying by Washington.
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Is UN is fast becoming irrelevant? If the member states can not act to resolve such a genocide what can we expect from them?