[movermike] movermike: Coming Soon: "Hotel" Darfur!

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Coming Soon: "Hotel" Darfur!
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   You remember the movie Hotel Rwanda? [1]Barcepundit and [2]TCS Daily
   are alerting us to another genocide about to take place in Darfur.
   Again, as in Rwanda, the UN is too little and too late.

     After the United States helped broker a Darfur peace deal in May,
     the United Nations promised to come to the rescue with a
     peacekeeping force capable of enforcing the accord. But, as Darfur
     faded from public consciousness, the world body has again proven
     itself utterly ineffective. As the feeble and largely symbolic
     African Union force (itself indifferent at best to the continuing
     rapes and murders) prepares to leave the region in five weeks,
     Darfur is on the brink of massive human killing with no
     international force forthcoming.

     [...]

     By best estimates, at least 250,000 men, women, and children have
     already been killed in Darfur. At least another 2.5 million people
     whose homes have been destroyed have taken shelter in miserable
     camps partially under the watch of the African Union military that
     will be withdrawing. In these places -- when they are not attacked
     by Janjaweed -- they die from disease and slow starvation as they
     await mass annihilation after the African Union troops leave.

References

   1. http://barcepundit-english.blogspot.com/2006/09/countdown-to-genocide-in-darfur-after.html
   2. http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=090506D