Darfur: This is Hell on Earth

The war in Darfur is a festering wound, a relentless assault on humanity. As I write this, the conflict grinds through its second year, a grim echo of the 2003 genocide. The region is a graveyard of shattered lives, with tens of thousands killed or wounded and over nine million displaced. It's a humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions, a crisis that defies description.

What gutters me is the level of humiliation heaped on the Darfurians. It isn’t enough to slaughter. First, they are starved, tortured, and de-humanized in the most unfathomable of ways.