Statistics vary considerably concerning the exact number of people affected by the genocide in Darfur. This ambiguity concerning how many have been affected is quite understandable when one considers the Sudanese government's penchant for either publicly denying or minimizing the extent of the ongoing genocide. However, even the most conservative NGO estimates place the number of people killed somewhere at a minimum in the hundreds of thousands. Apparently, this number falls short of the threshold required to shock our collective consciences into action. When compared to the millions of people who perished in the Nazi holocaust, I suppose that the paltry sum of only hundreds of thousands of deaths is hardly enough to enrage our "modern" consciences to the point where we are ready to act. But no matter how we look at it, hundreds of thousands of people is a lot of people!
The Nazis killed millions of Jews and others who were considered inferior to their evil and twisted minds more than half a century ago. I have visited the site where the Dachau concentration camp once served as an extermination center during the holocaust. The central theme that most visitors to this gruesome place walk away with is: "Never Again". The sad truth is that it is happening again. Perhaps the relatively "small" number of those killed during the present holocaust occurring in Darfur ? mere hundreds of thousands ? is too low to even compare to the millions of Jews and others hunted down and killed by the notoriously wicked Nazis of a half a decade ago. After all, if only hundreds of thousands of people have lost their lives in this genocide, we can dismiss it from our minds as just a freak isolated incident.
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