If a United Nations report can decree, just days after Holocaust Memorial Day, that the killing of tens of thousands of people in Darfur did not amount to genocide, then what does it mean to say 'Never again'? asks Andrew Donaldson. In July last year, a US state report found evidence of genocide in the oil-rich region. However, a UN report released just days after Holocaust Memorial Day has ruled otherwise - thus freeing the international community from a legal and binding obligation to bring to a swift end the killings there and to punish the perpetrators.
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