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On Our Watch

November 20, 2007

54m

The world community had promised over and over -"Never Again." But then came Darfur, and those promises proved empty.

On Our Watch

November 20, 2007

54m

The world invoked its vow “Never Again!” after the genocide in Rwanda and atrocities in Srebrenica. Then came Darfur. Over the past four years at least 200,000 people have been killed, 2.5 million driven from their homes, and mass rapes have once more been used as a weapon of war in a brutal campaign by Janjaweed militias and the Sudanese government against civilians in Darfur. FRONTLINE producer Neil Docherty asks why the international community and the United Nations have once again failed to stop the slaughter. [Explore more stories on the original website for On Our Watch.]

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