The Lang Report has been speaking out about the atrocities being committed in since we first started publishing. Being of Jewish ancestry, I am more than familiar with Adolf Hitler’s and the rallying cry “Never Again,” which connotes that humanity must never turn a blind eye towards man’s inhumanity to man.

Unfortunately, since that Holocaust there have been many other that have come and gone with nothing much being being done by the world community. In recent memory there was Rwanda, Bosnia and Pol Pot’s “killing fields” of Cambodia.

Now, as you are reading this, more than 2 million people have fled and are living in camps after more than four years of fighting. Many women have been and are still being abducted by the Janjaweed and held as sex slaves for week at a time before being released…if they are lucky.

The United States and some human rights groups are now saying that genocide is taking place….NO SHIT! The international complacency is unconscionable as illustrated by the statement made a United Nations investigation team, “….that while war crimes are being committed, there had been no intent to commit genocide.”

The conflict began in the arid and impoverished region early in 2003 after a rebel group began attacking government targets, saying the region was being neglected by Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. The rebels say the government is oppressing black Africans in favor of Arabs. There are two main rebel groups, the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), although both groups have split, some along ethnic lines.

Darfur, which means land of the Fur, has faced many years of tension over land and grazing rights between the mostly nomadic Arabs, and farmers from the Fur, Massaleet and Zagawa communities.

The only good news is that the United Nations Security Council has approved a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force to replace the 7,000 African Union (AU) observer mission struggling to protect civilians in Sudan's western province of Darfur

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Now, as you may seen on the news networks this week, China is facing a major international crisis linked to the Olympics amid mounting pressure over its role in Darfur after US filmmaker severed his links to the Games.

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So far neither the foreign ministry nor the Olympic Organising Committee (BOCOG) has responded to the decision by Spielberg to pull out of his role as artistic advisor to the opening and closing ceremonies of the August 8-24 Games.

However, he said that BOCOG was unaware of another potential embarrassment to the organisers of the Games.

Jacques Rogge, the head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), denied on Thursday having signed an appeal urging China to do more to end the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region. "It's completely false," his spokeswoman Emmanuelle Moreau told AFP.

British daily The Independent published a letter on Thursday, which purports to be signed by eight Nobel laureates as well as Rogge.

The letter was originally released to international media in Britain on February 12 by the campaigning group Crisis Action, calling on China to pressure Khartoum on atrocities committed in Darfur, as attention turns to the Olympic Games this summer in Beijing.

The United Nations estimates 200,000 people have died in Darfur from the combined effects of war, famine and disease since 2003,

When is it going to end and what are we, the world community going to do?