The situation in Darfur is rapidly reaching critical mass. Following an attack by Sudanese backed rebels on the capital of N'Djamena, the Chadian government has said it will expel the roughly 250,000 refugees by June 30 if international peacekeepers are not brought in to quell the rebels efforts on the Sudanese side of the border.
This would result in a quarter of a million women and children being stampeded to the slaughter house as the janjaweed, an unofficial militia with some ties to the Sudanese government, is waiting there where they will finish the genocide.
In a tape released over the weekend, even Osama bin Laden expressed more interest in the region than the American government has lately. If bin Laden is trying to rally the janjaweed, a mostly Arab militia, doesn't President Bush's statement of fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them here apply? By the way, I don't buy that argument, but you have to get republicans off their ass on this issue somehow.
A joint peacekeeping force from NATO and the African Union should be immediately deployed to the region lest we look back ten years from now and wonder how a second Rwanda occurred.
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