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| April 13, 2009 |
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123958504474112427.html>
Wall Street Journal - USA
The stories are beginning to trickle in from displaced-persons camps in Darfur: increasing hunger, epidemics and the the quietest killer -- a shortage of water in the Sahara.
The crisis is not a new one. The refrain regarding international crises is often, "If only the world knew, we would have done something." The people of Darfur know that we know. What they are waiting to find out is if we care enough to act. When the dust clears and the bodies are buried, burned or left to rot in forsaken camps, the world will mourn for what it did not do. What Darfur needs is not a future apology, but steps today that offer hope.