Turn the screws on Sudanese leaders

President George W. Bush has been more outspoken than most world leaders in condemning the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. But declarations that aren't backed up by action won't save anybody.

Government backed militias have been rampaging through Darfur since 2003 in a calculated campaign of murder, rape, torture, looting and burning. Some 400,000 people have died, and more than 2.5 million have been driven from their homes.

Sudan's president is now balking at the deployment of a U.N. peacekeeping force to which he agreed last year. And the government is obstructing humanitarian aid efforts. Yet the United States still hasn't slapped sanctions on Sudan that it had vowed to impose by Jan. 1. And other countries, including in Europe, have been even more reluctant to punish Sudan's leaders. Read more >>>