The Humanitarian Crisis the U.N. Doesn't Want You to Talk About

When you combine nature's fury with a chance to take a shot at America the U.N. is front and center. When it is some of your members doing the killing and U.N. impotence in stopping it on display, forget about it.

Forced evacuations and mass rapes; brutal ethnic killings and rampaging militias; oil profits and arms sales. The deadly mix of politics, economics, and insecurity has displaced 1.6 million people and killed tens of thousands in the Darfur region of western Sudan since early 2003. The United Nations recently described Darfur as the "world's worst humanitarian crisis."
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