More deaths!!!!

[jason]

DARFUR DEATH TOLL HORROR

The number of people who have died in the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan is now thought to be four times greater than had been estimated.
The House of Commons International Development Committee said the death toll is likely to be more than 300,000.


It said the previous World Health Organisation estimate of 70,000 was a "gross underestimate".

MPs reached that conclusion after interviewing organisations which have visited the region, including the United Nations.

The findings come in a report by the committee, which accuses the international community of a "scandalously ineffective response" to the situation in Sudan.

It says governments across the world - including the UK - are guilty of a catalogue of failings in dealing with the crisis.

The United Nations has labelled the situation in the western region of Sudan as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

Sudan's government and pro-government Arab militias are accused of war crimes against the region's population.

The committee says the WHO figure is wrong because it only counts the violent deaths that took place in camps for internally displaced people.

Of those attacked in their villages, only those who made it to the camps before dying would be included in the WHO estimate.

The WHO estimate also does not include deaths due to violence from which people have fled.

And it only covers the period from March to mid-October 2004 and takes account of deaths in accessible areas within the borders of Darfur.

The USA says the crisis amounts to genocide. But the UN has stopped short of using the term.

But the MPs' report says the crimes committed are "no less serious and heinous than genocide".