Now this is worth the coverage

For crying out loud. It’s about time the world paid more attention to Darfur.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators in cities around the world on Sunday demanded action to stop the killing in Darfur, Sudan…

Violence erupted three years ago in ethnically mixed Darfur, when ethnic African rebels took up arms over what they saw as neglect by the Arab-dominated central government.

The Sudanese government is accused of responding by unleashing Arab militias called Janjaweed, who have systematically raped women and pillaged villages in a campaign the United States has branded “genocide.”

Antonio Guterres, the U.N. high commissioner for refugees, has called for “urgent international action” to deal with the problem.

Humanitarian agencies are trying to deal with 2 million internally displaced people and more than 200,000 refugees in 12 UNHCR-run camps across the border in Chad, he said.

I talked with Sen. Sam Brownback on my radio show several times about this atrocity. But has it hit the public ‘radar’ yet?

In Ottawa, Canada, former U.N. commander for Rwanda, Romeo Dallaire, attended the rally there.

Dallaire, a Liberal senator, warned that Darfur could become the next Rwanda. “Darfur is tasting, smelling, looking in every way, shape (and) form like a repetition on a similar scale of what happened in Rwanda 12 years ago,” the retired lieutenant general said.

“We are going to witness, again with blood on our hands, the destruction of human beings who are exactly like us.”

True, everywhere that it happens. Everywhere.