Chad Issues A Warning

Chad is a neighbor to Darfur, Sudan and has been feeling the effects of the Darfur genocide campaign for some time now. They're finally reaching the end of the line and it's got the potential to get even messier than it is right now:

Chad's President Idriss Deby on Friday broke diplomatic ties with neighbor Sudan, which he accused of trying to topple him, and warned that his country could stop sheltering thousands of Sudanese refugees.

One day after rebels battled the army in a surprise raid on the capital, the government paraded what it said were 160 captured rebels and 14 military vehicles at a rally in N'Djamena.

At the rally Deby again accused the Sudanese government of backing rebels who have carried out attacks across Chad and portrayed his landlocked country as a victim of the political and ethnic conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, which has driven more than 200,000 refugees over the border.

"We have taken the decision to break our diplomatic relations with Sudan today and to proceed to close our frontiers," Deby, wearing a dark suit and tinted glasses, said.

The UN has been unwilling to step in and enforce international law against genocide until now. However, the fact that Sudanese militias are spilling into Chad to pursue escaping Darfurians may force the UN to act. It's sad that it has to come to this. After all, the Darfur genocide has been ongoing for months on end, and it may finally take the breakout of a general war between Chad and Sudan to bring an end to the genocide.

Too bad that this could have been averted had the UN stepped in when the genocide was in its infancy and brought the Khartoum government to justice before it reached this level and the butcher's bill was paid.

UPDATE:
Chad is also threatening to expel the Darfurian refugees.