what's happening with darfur?

Answer 1

Not much has changed. The Sudanese government are refusing to allow a UN force to go into Darfur to replace the African Union forces. Thankfully the African Union has decided to extend their stay for a few months. In cases such as this the UN should be more forceful and if need be go in with the aim of overthrowing any government that will stand by and watch their people being slaughtered.

Answer 2

More importantly, what is the United Nations doing about it?

Time and again, the UN has proven to be about as useful as a eunuch paired with a nymphomaniac.

Look at past tragedies (Rwanda, Bosnia, etc...) and tell me where the UN has actually helped people.

Here's a short course on what's happening (from the link)
A famine in the mid-1980s disrupted many societal structures and led to the first significant fighting amongst Darfuris. A low level conflict continued for the next 15 years, with the government coopting and arming "Arab" militias against its enemies. The fighting reached a peak in 2003 with the beginning of the Darfur conflict, in which the resistance coalesced into a roughly cohesive rebel movement. The conflict soon came to be regarded as one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.

Answer 3

The UN Security Council's recent passage of a resolution to establish a UN peacekeeping mission in Darfur could mark an important break with the past, one largely overlooked in the commentary following the resolution's adoption. Most news stories and analyses have focused on whether the government of Sudan's "consent" is required before any UN troops may enter Darfur.
The U.S. secretary of state said Sudan must stop military operations in Darfur and unconditionally accept a U.N. peacekeeping force to avoid further sanctions.
The U.S. will not sit still while innocent people are killed in Sudan's Darfur region, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday, urging an immediate cease-fire and deployment of U.N. peacekeepers.
these are the recent news for more log in
yahoo news

Answer 4

It is Killing Field, more Muslim terror upon innocents. Where is the great african american community on this one? Why, they are still trying to get restitution for slavery from 220 years ago. Why aren't they up in arm over the Darfur situation. Why aren" the peaceful (?) Muslims in this country outraged over what is going on in Darfur. Why is the world looking to the US to get involved in Darfur. We are supposed to act when they want us to act? Yet, we can"t defend our own people without being criticized.
Let Chavez or Castro, or Armadinijahd send troops there to save the innocents? Why should any American soldiers be asked to go there?

Answer 5

apparently, i've heard that things have got worse. not that the UN or kofi annan cares. then again they couldn't give a damn that people are dying in that country, inasmuch as they couldn't give a damn when the rwandans died in one of the most disgraceful and shocking tragedies and scandals the world has ever seen, not forgetting that this was the worse case of genocide that ever took place, back in 1994. and alas today uganda is going through a crisis of its own, as well as that robert mugabe is destroying zimbabwe and that he and his supporters treat their own people like slaves.

how come is it that likes of south east asia, during the tsunami crisis a few years ago and iraq got either preferrential treatment or in iraq's case invaded by the west- and yet the west's government's and aid officials and the UN do nothing for the victims of africa? then again, it all goes back to the days of the west colonising african countries and taking over them many centuries ago.

if kofi annan and the rest of the people representing the UN do not seem to be the least bit inclined in addressing the problems in rwanda, zimbabwe and uganda to name, then may i suggest they'd do us all a favour and resign.

Answer 6

The killing and slavery goes on. There is a perfectly working slave market in khartoum. And nobody wants to intervene because all the african dictators keep shouting about neocolonialism and such nonsense.
The worst thing about this is that it would only take 2-3 thousand competent troops with air support to make this area peaceful

Answer 7

Check with your local politician,
Zimbabwe, Darfur etc. is so last year to them

Answer 8

the radical Islamicists attempt to exterminate all Jews in Israel/Palestine. China is killing off the Tibetans and forcing Han chinese language into Tibet to crush them culturally. There are various places in eastern Africa the place genocide is the guideline.

Answer 9

Are there people left alive there? Last I heard they had beaten and raped each other to death. Why are we in Iraq?

Answer 10

extermination, Bin Laden put out a message a couple of months ago warning us to stay out of it.