Darfur Is Worst Human Rights Abuse

We admit it, but what are we goint to do about it:

U.S. Says Darfur Is Worst Rights Abuse

The ongoing genocide in Sudan's troubled Darfur region was the world's worst human rights abuse last year, the United States said Tuesday in a global report that found freedoms eroding in numerous other nations, including war-torn Afghanistan and Iraq.

In its annual survey of human rights practices, the State Department cited progress in some countries but stressed a series of "sobering realities" reflecting a significant deterioriation in conditions in some of the world's most populous states like China and Russia. The U.S. is has joined both of those countries in diplomatic efforts to resolve nuclear confrontations with Iran and North Korea.

"Genocide was the most sobering reality of all," it said in the 2006 "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices," noting that mass killings continued to "ravage" Darfur nearly 60 years after the world vowed "Never again!" following the Holocaust.

In 2004, the movie Hotel Rwanda showed us what the horror of genocide looks like while another genocide in Darfur was taking place. Not that we should need to be reminded of the horror of genocide after the genocides of World War II, but apparently we do.

We desperately need to move beyond the point of simply recognizing genocides, and start preventing them or, at least, move much faster in stopping them.