Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Darfur: reasons for fear and hopeWhy the interest?

By ANNE APPLEBAUM
Special to The Washington Post

There was a photograph: a weeping Sudanese woman, standing before a freshly dug grave. There were statistics: 400,000 people dead, 2.5 million driven from their homes, "untold thousands" raped. There was an appeal: "Innocent civilians are being slaughtered in Darfur. You can end it," and a Web address, www.dayfordarfur.org.

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