UN urges global action on Darfur from SCBBC

A senior UN official has urged the world to pressure the Sudan government and rebels into ending human rights abuses in the western Darfur region.
UN emergency relief co-ordinator Jan Egeland said the organisation was getting daily reports of atrocities but was unable to help those affected.

He accused the government in Khartoum of tolerating "ethnic cleansing" by Arab militias.

"We must put pressure on the parties," he told the Security Council on Friday.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians have been displaced in the fighting, with more than 100,000 fleeing across the border into neighbouring Chad.


Listen up "War is not the Answer", "Not in My Name", "coalition to Stop the War", etc etc, belly up to the bar. Now is your chance. What say you? Want to have a rally, release some balloons, condemn the US and their poodle Blair? What about you, the former MP from Baghdad central, want to check out the oil rights first? Why are you people so silent when this is happening all over the world?

On Friday a report by New York based rights group Human Rights Watch also accused the Sudanese authorities of committing crimes against humanity in the region.

Well, that's that then! That's the answer! And don't do it again Mr Despot.