From The New York Times:EL FASHER, Sudan — The changes across the landscape here would have been hard to imagine just a few years ago.
The rebel groups that started the war in Darfur in 2003, catalyzing a conflict that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, almost seem to have gone into hibernation. So, too, have the infamous janjaweed, the marauding bandits who raped, killed and terrorized countless civilians.
And this planting season, for the first time since 2003, United Nations officials say that tens of thousands of farmers who had been seeking refuge in squalid displaced persons camps returned to their villages to plant crops, a journey many Darfurians would have considered suicide until recently.
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My Comment: The men who caused this genocide still remain unpunished, and are (still) in positions of power. As long as they remain, there can never be peace in Darfur.
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