Darfur Genocide

CNN.com:

A bipartisan congressional delegation, accompanied by an Oscar-nominated actor, urged the United States and the international community Thursday to take action to end the war in the Darfur region of Sudan. The six-member delegation, led by Republican Rep. Ed Royce of California, recently returned from the region after getting a firsthand look at the humanitarian crisis and examining how the United States and other countries are responding. 'This killing goes on day in, day out,' Royce told a Capitol Hill news conference. 'I saw young children who have lost their hands. I asked one how, and he said by sword, by the Janjaweed [militia]. 'Many others have lost their hearing from the bombardment. We saw many crippled people. We know of the systematic rape that has occurred throughout this region, the plunder of crops and of cattle. 'And right now there are over 1.4 million displaced people wandering around in Sudan [and] about a quarter of a million over the border now in Chad as a consequence of this genocide.'

I haven't posted on this situation in a while, but it is not something we should ignore. I am glad some of our politician's are paying attention to this.