180,000 Darfur Deaths in 18 Months - UN Envoy's New Estimate (Reuters)

[Hissyspit]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N14485140.htm

Over 180,000 Darfur deaths in 18 months - UN envoy
15 Mar 2005 04:10:00 GMT

Source: Reuters
By Evelyn Leopold

UNITED NATIONS, March 14 (Reuters) - The U.N. emergency relief coordinator, Jan Egeland, estimates that more than 180,000 people have died in Sudan's Darfur from hunger and disease over the past 18 months, his spokesman said on Monday.

The deaths do not include people killed during ongoing violence in Sudan's arid western region, said spokesman Brian Grogan.

Last week Egeland said that earlier estimates of 70,000 dead from last March to late summer were too low, telling a news conference: "Is it three times that? Is it five times that? I don't know but it is several times the number of the 70,000 that have died altogether."

Egeland now estimates that an average of 10,000 people have died each month over the past year and a half from malnutrition and disease, Grogan said.

[LynnTheDem]

1. And just listen to the rightwingnuts demanding we stop the mass genocide

happening right now!

*chirp*

[ElsewheresDaughter]

3. how many of those rightwingnuts have seen "Hotel Rwanda"? or even care?

after taking my children to see it...i now know why Nick Nolti was arrested for being a drunk....depressing

[LynnTheDem]

5. They don't care; and they no longer care about the Afghanis, and with Iraq

one day they say we MUST LIBERATE the poor Iraqis from that purple plastic people shredder...and the next day they say NUKE EM ALL.

Rightwingnuts have no empathy and no ability to care; all they do is mouth whatever emotions they're told that day to mouth.

NUKE EM!

LIBERATE EM!

NUKE EM!

LIBERATE EM!

NUKE EM!

...

Stupidest MFers on the planet.

[Zynx]

2. Simply staggering and depressing. n/t

[JNelson6563]

4. Darfur...isn't that really far away?

And aren't the people over there really dark skinned? Do they have any oil?

*yawn*

Who wants to go shopping?

Ugh.

[NNN0LHI]

6. Must be "hard work" for Chimpy to help these people? n/t

[katinmn]

7. I wish Carter and Ford would team up for a Darfur relief effort

they are both continuing in their roles as honorary co-chairs of cover the uninsured week for the third or fourth year.

On second thought, nothing has happened with ctuw except more people have been added to the uninsured rolls.

I guess the US will just continue to cast a blind eye at Sudan.

[wildflower]

10. You know, that's an excellent idea. n/t

[Catfight]

8. We haven't really progressed in humanity in the 21st century, have we. nt

[stubertmcfly]

9. This situation...

...is appalling. We ALL must rally to stop these atrocities from happening (again). Keep in mind, the massacre in Rwanda was committed under Clinton's watch so this isn't a Republican vs. Democratic issue. We are all culpable.

Check out http://www.darfurgenocide.org for more information.