Per Instapundit. The situation in Dafur hasn't stabilized - in fact, it's getting worse as all the factions are fighting each other. The civilian populations are in the middle, and suffering for it. More than 270,000 people were killed in the violence thus far, and world attention - particularly at the UN - has never been focused on it, much preferring to attack the US involvment in Iraq to the hard work of stopping a genocide in Dafur.
And the UN is ineffectual because the Chinese do not want the UN to get involved since it would upset their economic interests in Sudanese oil contracts (where have we see economics drive the UN before? Oh yes, in Iraq where the Russians and French opposed action because it upset their oil deals).
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