Time to Lead in Sudan--Center for American Progress

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A moral and humanitarian crisis of the first order is rapidly unfolding in the western Sudanese region of Darfur. Arab death squads have forced hundreds of thousands of African villagers into refugee camps. Over a million Sudanese have been displaced and between ten and 30,000 have been killed. At a time when the Bush administration justifies intervention in Iraq on humanitarian grounds, immediate steps to stop the unfolding genocide in Sudan would prove that it takes these principles seriously and is not just using them as convenient rationales for war.

Time to Lead in Sudan....