It has been called the first genocide of the 21st century. Now it seems that the crisis of death and displacement in the Darfur region of Sudan has been underestimated. A new analysis suggests that hundreds of thousands of people have died in the conflict rather than the tens of thousands earlier reported.
John Hagan at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and Alberto Palloni at the University of Wisconsin at Madison used UN counts of refugees living in camps in western Darfur and combined them with the best available surveys which had interviewed internally displaced people living in these camps.…
