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Two and a half years after major conflict began in the Darfur province of far western Sudan, it is perversely clear how the future history of this tortured region will be written. Any meaningful account will be guided by a chronology that includes readily discernible signposts of genocidal destruction, beginning in spring 2003; various occasions for empty international condemnation of accelerating ethnically targeted destruction of non-Arab, or "African," tribal populations throughout Darfur; the numerous, belated stages in an inadequate humanitarian response to rapidly growing concentrations of vulnerable civilian victims; serial failures by the UN and Western democracies to confront Khartoum's génocidaires; and desperately expedient reliance upon a glib notion of "African solutions for African problems.

Explanations for the international community's willingness to overlook the mounting crisis in Darfur are sought. An overview of the International Crisis Group's recommendations for addressing the humanitarian crisis in Darfur is presented, emphasizing the use of military forces from North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations to complement African Union forces & augmenting the number of international peacekeepers throughout the region from approximately 10,000 to 45,000 troops. Several factors responsible for the international community's reluctance to acknowledge the failure of the African Union to prevent genocide in Darfur are highlighted, eg, deaths caused by disease & malnutrition are generally interpreted as collateral damage rather than the products of genocidal policies. Despite this egregious misunderstanding of mortality in Darfur, it is stressed that the number of displaced persons combined with the number of injured or killed Africans in Darfur easily surpass various international figures for determining genocide. It is stressed that the number of Africans in Darfur who die monthly is greater than the number of deaths in other recent international crisis & concluded that the international community's continued disregard of the Darfur crisis is shameful. J. W. Parker