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Darfur is in a nightmare that is alive here today and perhaps somewhere else tomorrow. Racial and tribal tensions, and regional disquiet, have erupted into a war where the civilians are being punished, killed and abused.
We are adults, this is the world we live in and accept. The world we have created for ourselves.
. . . Why are massacres of civilians allowed to happen in Sudan? Why has no-one even counted the dead?
Money is needed desperately now to save lives. But it has gone this far in Darfur, because no-one really noticed or did anything to stop it. Nadia did not have to die at all.
[From Our Own Correspondent was broadcast on Saturday, 24 July 2004 at 1130
BST on BBC Radio 4. Please check the programme schedules
for World Service transmission times.]
Globalizing Anguish
As global broadcasting brings the world the news of war, there are no heroes,
there is no threat. Reports of wars in
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