http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4643647.stm Quote:
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has criticised the developed world for being too slow to respond to the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region.
"We were slow, hesitant, uncaring," Mr Annan said in a BBC interview.
He said the international community had "learnt nothing from Rwanda" - a reference to the 1994 genocide there.
At least 180,000 have died since 2003 in the western region of Darfur. More than two million people have been forced from their homes.
Human rights groups, the US Congress and the US government say that genocide is taking place.
However, a UN team sent to Sudan to investigate concluded that war crimes had been committed, but there had been no intent to commit genocide by the Sudanese government.
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What should be done in this region? Are we now doing enough? Can we reverse some of the damage caused by waiting?