London - The catastrophe in Sudan's Darfur region could have been averted if the United Nations, world media and human rights groups had picked up and acted on warning signals, said a human rights group on Monday.
Minority Rights Group (MRG) accused the international community of failing to learn from the genocide in Rwanda 10 years earlier and to set up a system to predict and thwart escalating ethnic violence.
Mark Lattimer of the MRG said: "Darfur would just not be in this situation had the UN systems got its act together after Rwanda: their action was too little too late.
"This level of crisis, the killings, rape and displacement could have been foreseen and avoided. Read more >>>
Monday, October 16, 2006
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