The Casualties of Neglect -- Darfur

As if you needed another example of the impotency of international organizations when responding to ongoing disasters, consider Darfur. This is absolutely heartrending:

From Human Rights Watch [here]

On mission along the border of Chad and Darfur, Human Rights Watch researchers gave children notebooks and crayons to keep them occupied while they spoke with the children’s parents. Without any instruction or guidance, the children drew scenes from their experiences of the war in Darfur: the attacks by the Janjaweed, the bombings by Sudanese government forces, the shootings, the burning of entire villages, and the flight to Chad.

Scroll above for a sample of the results. [Hat tip, Instapundit].

The reason that the UN has not sanctioned intervention to stop these atrocities is that France [yes, France!] has signaled that it would block any action.

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