Brian Grogan, a spokesman for Jan Egeland, the UN emergency relief coordinator, told the UK Guardian [2] that an average 10,000 civilians are dying each month in Darfur, totalling 180,000 over the past 18 months. These are only the victims of starvation or disease in refugee camps after being driven from their villages by government-backed militiamen. The estimate excludes those directly killed.
Fortunately, the UN has officially found that this is not genocide [3], so nobody is obliged to actually do anything about it.
