SAVE ALL WAR VICTIMS NOW

MAN OF THE PEOPLE Darfur is desperate
Eamonn Holmes

EUROPEAN leaders have described the suffering of innocent people in Darfur as "unbearable" and "intolerable".

So why don't they do something about it? Billions of pounds continue to be spent on the hopeless conflicts of Iraq and Afghanistan. Troops will be deployed "until the job is done", we are told over and over again.

We're told it's about the establishment of democracy and the safety of innocent civilians. They are, apparently, much better off under a newlyelected government propped up by Western forces than they were during the dark days of Saddam.

Yet who's doing anything about the three million victims of the war in Darfur who have been displaced?

That African conflict in western Sudan has been going on for four years, yet most people do not even know where it is or what the fighting is about. The United Nations can't be sure how many have died. It might be 200,000. It could be as many as 400,000. Does anyone really care? Read more >>>