Security Council Will Test Abilities of World Community to Act on Darfur Atrocities

As massive atrocities in Darfur occur daily and the situation worsens, the crisis is becoming the signal test of whether the major powers are able to cooperate in order to prosecute effectively the perpetrators and prevent more atrocities. On January 27, 2005, Kevin M. Kennedy, Director of the Coordination and Response Division of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), issued a statement expressing serious concerns about reports that approximately 100 people were killed or injured when Sudanese government planes bombed a village in the northern sector of the Darfur region ...