Sudan's Darfur War Over, Says UN Commander

Reuters:

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's Darfur region is no longer in a state of war and only has one rebel group capable of mounting limited military campaigns, the head of the area's peacekeeping force said as he ended his tour of duty.

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Comments

[lainey]

The genocide is not over. The people of Darfur still live as refugees in foreign land, while being replaced by people of Arab descent. The indigeonous people of Darfur need not a spokesman from the UN to tell them what has happened and what continues to happen, but rather a spokeperson from the region to stand next to our President and tell the world what is happening and did happen. There is much shame in allowing this to occur, but there is more in turning away. After what happened in Rwanda, one would think that the entire world would have a sense of responsiblity to the still suffering people of Darfur. God bless you. Right now the best thing that we can do is pray and call 1-800-GENOCIDE. Please do.

[Motassim]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0809/Pressing_Obama_on_Sudan.html

One segment of Obama's base that remains largely dissatisfied with the administration is human rights advocates, and in particular the movement formed to stop the genocide in Sudan, which took out ads this week in national and Martha's Vineyard papers using Obama's own words on the crisis there to press for action.

The ads are the product of a new group, Humanity United. One consultant to Sudan advocacy groups, Chuck Thies, emails that the move is the product of restlessness among advocates at the administration's "seeming inaction" and concern at Sepcial Envoy Scott Gration's statement that genocide in Sudan had stopped.

Writes Thies:

Soemthing to chew on that has not yet entered the public debate: Though the rate of death from violence in Darfur has been greatly reduced in the past year, millions of people still live in unsafe refugee and IDP camps, slowly starving to death. No one suggested the Holocaust genocide ended until the death camps were liberated; the same should be true for Darfur.