Mark Moon / 1:17 AM / 3.29.08 / Ethnic Conflict
In the conflict between ethnic minorities and majorities in Darfur continues, the death count is clearly rising. The issue lies in the exact number. The estimate from the UN two years ago was at 200,000. They now estimate that 400,000 is closer to the correct figure. Without access to areas where humanitarian workers aren't allowed to venture, it will never be certain. In addition, the UN is too busy helping the living to worry about the total number of dead. Meanwhile, Sudan is pressing against a mortality count. Sudan claims only 10,000 deaths in Darfur. Aid workers say that perhaps that is the number killed by bullets, but not by starvation and disease.
With such drastic differences in figures, one can only imagine what the true mortality count is in Darfur. How many are due to direct violence? How many are a result of this violence in the form of starvation and disease? Until we are able to stabilize the region, we'll likely never know.
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1 comment:
I dont know a lot about the issues in Darfur but I think that it is a tragedy that more people are not aware of the issue and what is going on and the UN is not more willing to look at the statistics and do something about the starvation and disease that is so prevalent in Darfur.
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