In the year when the world marks the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, there are new and disturbing echoes of what happened a decade ago. For the past few months, in Sudan, government-backed militia have been sacking villages in the western region of Darfur. Thousands of people are dead and nearly a million displaced, many without shelter, food, or water.

A recent U.N. mission has called the situation in Darfur “a massive humanitarian crisis.” Perhaps the most frightening echo of what happened in Rwanda ten years ago is that the world seems to be ignoring the disaster in Darfur.

Guests:

Omer Ismail, director and co-founder of Darfur Peace and Development

Samantha Power, lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard’s JFK School of Government, and author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book, “A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide”

Ambassador Michael Ranneberger, special advisor on Sudan at the U.S. State Department

James Morris Executive Director of the United
Nation’s World Food Program.