Thursday, January 04, 2007

DARFUR: What to do about it?


Since 2003, at least 300,000 men, women and children have been killed, and some 2.2 million people—approximately one-third of Darfur’s population—have been terrorized and driven from their homes.

Villages are burned routinely, and survivors are usually forced into refugee camps where they depend on international assistance to survive. But relief operations delivering food and water to the region are often turned back by violence. This summer alone, 21 supply vehicles were hijacked and 12 humanitarian workers were killed. Read more >>>

No comments: