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Glen Reynolds over at Instapundit.com is continuing to bring much needed attention to Darfur. Here is his latest post, which links to a summary of the situation on the Sudan/Chad border, where the Arab militias are following refugees across into Chad and continuing to attack them.

The news out of Sudan is ambiguous. On the one hand, the government says it is going to disarm its militias. On the other hand, it is not clear at all what is really happening, or is going to happen, that is different than what has been going on. The militias are essentially renegade gangs operating on an unpoliced border of a state the size of Texas. Disarming them will be no mean feat, even if the government is sincere in wanting to do so. And sincerity cannot be assumed from this genocidal regime.

I continue to believe that it is imperative that an international force move into the area to protect people.

What governments say is only the start, at best, of change. We need action on the ground of massive proportions, and at this time we have very little direct access to information from Darfur--because the government has kept observers out.

On a personal note, I received a disturbing but enlightening email a few minutes ago, which I share with you. I subscribe to an email list that comes out of the University of Colorado, and is loosely concerned with war and peace. Today one of the members passed on a story about exhuming the mass graves that resulted from the genocide in the former Yugoslavia. It gave me a real sense of what we so loosely call the "reality on the ground."

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[Anthony]

There is also a rising problem of a Polio epidemic in Darfur:

http://www.blacktriangle.org.uk/blog/archives/000806.html