Security council silent amid killing in Dafur

The United Nations Security Council, the body supremely charged with acting to ensure international peace and security, is failing in its responsibility to Darfur's victims of ethnic cleansing. Efforts to halt the killings on the part of the Security Council Members had been 'half-hearted and ineffective' stated MRG, which suggested that Sudan was acting 'in the full and certain knowledge that the international community would fail to act against it'. The message that this sends out is that states can continue to violate the rights of their own citizens without interference. [more]