Sunday, April 29, 2007

Taking a stand on Darfur

BY MONROE ANDERSON

For hundreds of thousands of Africans, the Darfur region of Sudan has been hell on Earth. For about 20,000 Arabs, it is yet another opportunity to book a one-way trip to heaven. And for a relatively small number of Sudanese thugs and thieves, it is simply an opportunity to raid and loot.
Some 200,000 to 400,000, depending on whose estimates, African men, women and children have been massacred since the conflict in Darfur began four years ago. Besides the mass murders, reports of Janjaweed militias gang-raping, plundering and burning entire villages are routine. Some 2.5 million Africans have fled their homes in Darfur and are now holed up in refugee camp in neighboring Chad. Read more >>>

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