Will the World Stop the Genocide in Sudan?

MELBOURNE, June 8, 2004 (theage.com.au): It’s time to put pressure on the Sudanese Government to stop the dying in Darfur, write Susan Rice and Gayle Smith in The Age – In Western Sudan, the Government of Sudan and its proxy, the Janjaweed Arab militia, are attempting to crush a rebellion by Muslim Africans with the same vicious tactics they have used for years against Christian and animist opponents in southern Sudan. While negotiating a peace agreement with southern rebel forces, the Government and its militia have killed, raped, kidnapped, bombed, enslaved, displaced, starved and burned countless innocent civilians in Darfur. United Nations officials have called this ethnic cleansing the “world’s greatest humanitarian catastrophe.”