What for? Darfur.

This blog seems to be the most comprehensive source on the net: Passion of the Present. It includes a link to satellite images of destroyed villages. PBS apparently did a story and the footage is available here (through the above blog). Here is a good point about the fact that disease collocates with refugee camps. The point to remember is that they don't have to shoot every person in the head or push them into a gas chamber in order for it to constitute genocide.

This has a list of different places to donate money if you find an organization to your taste. But in reading the tasks of the aid organizations which include providing water, food, clothing and so on to the refugees there is one task that is notably absent. There is no organization listed that is directly involved in trying to effect a solution to the problem that is displacing all of these people. These organizations are doing something that needs to be done to directly help the people that have been and are being terrorized, but something has to be done about the source of the problem, someone has to deal with the people doing the terrorizing as well.

Latest News:Blair draws up plans to send troops to Sudan
Sudan would pull troops out of Darfur if Britain sent forces: minister
US threatens sanctions against Sudan
Sudanese govt officials implicated in supporting Janjawid militias

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday it had obtained documents showing that Sudanese government officials had directed the recruitment, arming and support for Janjawid militias in the country's western region of Darfur.

The selective compassion of the West is a decent article from down under including this tidbit:

China and France, which both have oil investments in Sudan, have been resisting, as has Russia

On a possibly related note: Russia supplies Sudan with MiG aircraft ahead of schedule. Good to know they have enough money to buy fighter jets.