Date: 05/16/2008
After more than four years of unrelenting violence in Darfur and eastern Chad, and faced with overwhelming suffering, it can be easier to quantify rather than qualify the nature of what is occurring. At least 200,000 people are dead and 2.5 million people are displaced in this isolated pocket of Africa. But consider these statistics in a more familiar context: imagine every resident of New Orleans wiped off the map. Or picture the population of Houston, the United States’ fourth largest city, living in refugee camps, sleeping in makeshift shelters made of plastic sheeting, and subsisting on international handouts—some for more than four years.
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