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Darfur death toll hits 300,000: UN
2008-04-23
The conflict in Darfur is getting worse, with the death toll rising to 300,000, the United Nations said Tuesday. The death toll in the five-year conflict in the Sudanese region had originally been pegged at 200,000.

UN humanitarian chief John Holmes and Rodolphe Adada, the joint representative for the UN and African Union in Darfur, gave the grim report to the UN Security Council in New York City on Tuesday. They said thousands of additional people have been uprooted from their homes, upping earlier estimates of 2.5 million displaced people.
Posted by:Fred

#10  Y'all may be cynical, but I am confident that as long as the shrimp cocktails hold out, the UN will be conferencing its collective ass off about this problem.
Posted by: SteveS   2008-04-23 23:20  

#9  tu nails it. We must hold a conference to decide that though, so I hear that hawaii is nice this time of year, eh?

Note that it's labelled a "conflict" and a "displacement." Don't call it by what it really is (a genocide)
Posted by: BA   2008-04-23 22:09  

#8  See also REDDIT > GUARDIAN.uk - THE US ROLE IN HAITI FOOD RIOTS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-04-23 22:00  

#7  Forgot,
"And steal as much money as possible."
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2008-04-23 15:12  

#6  No,No,No, BChoinski
you miss the whole purpose of the UN, it's to whine, be a nuisance, and do nothing, of any consequence.(no possible way to hold them responsible that way.)
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2008-04-23 14:45  

#5  If the UN is so goddamn concerned about it, how about they stop pissing and moaning and do something, like send forces of their own?

Posted by: BChoinski   2008-04-23 13:32  

#4  300,000 out of a 2.5 million population isn't genocide, it's mass murder, in this case to effect exactly the population movement that's taken place.
Posted by: trailing wife    2008-04-23 12:02  

#3  Can't be, tu, the US isn't in there to commit it.
Posted by: Menhadden Snogum6713   2008-04-23 11:07  

#2  Has the UN figured out if it's genocide yet?
Posted by: tu3031   2008-04-23 08:19  

#1  Hundreds of thousands (that's what they say) dead in Iraq because the US invaded; hundreds of thousands dead in Darfur because the US didn't invade.
Posted by: Menhadden Snogum6713   2008-04-23 07:48  

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