SINCE February 2003, hundreds of thousands of people in the Darfur region of western Sudan have been murdered by government-supported local militias, and millions forced to flee their burnt-out villages for the dubious safety of refugee camps. It is genocide by any definition, yet the world looks away.
The events in Darfur are the latest in a long line of mass murders since the second world war that powerful nations and their citizens have responded to with indifference. Think of Rwanda in 1994, Cambodia under Pol Pot, Algeria throughout the 1990s, Ethiopia under the Mengistu regime, the Chinese takeover of…
