Save the Children quits Darfur

[gottaB]

LONDON (Reuters) - Aid agency Save the Children is pulling its 350 staff out of the conflict-torn Darfur region of Sudan after the killing of four staff members in the past two months and with danger levels rising daily.

"We are devastated that we are unable to continue to offer health care, nutritional support, child protection and education to the approximately 250,000 children and family members served by our current programmes," said Mike Aaronson, director of Save the Children UK.

"However, we just cannot continue to expose our staff to the unacceptable risks they face as they go about their humanitarian duties in Darfur," he added.

Save the Children quits Darfur....

[jhain]

1. Damn n/t

[annabanana]

2. it's so sad..

the weakest and most vulnerable left without help or hope.

[ArthurDent]

3. The UN is asleep again

So sad. Wasn't the UN formed to stop events like we see in Sudan?

[Telly Savalas]

5. When it's most prominent member states don't do shit...

their hands are tied. You can bash the UN all you want, but I don't see that shithead in the White House encouraging them to take action. That abhorrent fuck has no problems sacrificing lives and billions of dollars for a resource grab in Iraq, but when it comes to averting a genocide, he's comfortable sticking his thumb up his ass. Fuck that hypocritical bastard.

[Earth_First]

6. Were too busy "liberating" Iraq, you know...

to liberate a third-world African nation. /sarcasm

[gottaB]

7. yeah, that sums up my feelings too

that and sadness

[ArthurDent]

10. Bush is just as much to blame

But it seems that if the US doesn't go in, no one does (or worse, they do a half-assed Ivory Coast job).

[Cerridwen]

4. Awful. Save the Children does great work. Damn. - n/t

[THUNDER HANDS]

8. too bad they don't have oil

poor children, if only they were being massacred on top of a pile of sweet crude.

[Telly Savalas]

9. Actually they do have oil.

Not nearly as much as Iraq, mind you, but there's still a fair share there.

[ArthurDent]

11. Um..

It's very likely that France isn't going in _because_ of their oil -- they get it on the cheap.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3875277.stm