Write some more letters PLEASE. Write to the UN –to Ban Ki-Moon, (Secretary General) Write to the Permanent 5 members of the Security Council: France, China, Russia, England, and the US. The US permanent representative is Zalmay Khalizada – although ultimately his boss is Condaleza Rice . Urge the them to insist that Khartoum accept and facilitate the full and immediate deployment of UNAMID – the robust peacekeeping force of 26000 as outlined and agreed to in UN Resolution 1769 – Khartoum must cease to obstruct the deployment.

The World Food Programme’s loss of transport capacity highlights the urgent, urgent need for security on the ground: no amount of money will address this issue. Very few NGO’s will now deliver food by ground, leaving only unsustainably expensive airdrops as the alternative. This is not a solution. Civilians and humanitarians cannot be protected by the force of less than 9000 that is currently on the ground.

And contact the sponsors of the Olympic games. Make it clear that in the face of genocide it is unacceptable that they conduct ‘business as usual’.