One of …[Sudan\u2019s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir’s] first actions after the arrest warrant was to undertake yet another crime against humanity: He expelled major international aid groups, including the International Rescue Committee and the Dutch section of Doctors Without Borders. In effect, he is now preparing to massacre the Darfuri people in still another way, for Darfuris are living in camps and depend on aid workers for food, water and health care \u201d\u201d even as deadly meningitis has broken out in one of the camps.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe consequences are going to be dire,\u201d\u009d notes George Rupp, the president of the International Rescue Committee, on which 1.75 million Sudanese depend for water, sanitation, education and health care. \u201cIf Sudan persists in this decision, it\u2019s difficult to see how the outcome will be anything other than serious suffering and death for hundreds of thousands of people.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
Mr. Bashir is now testing the international community, and President Obama and other world leaders must respond immediately and decisively, in conjunction with as many non-Western nations as possible.<\/p>\n