It’s genocide: why won’t the UN say so?

CONGRATULATIONS to Rónán Mullen. Of all the journalists who have written on the subject of the UN response to the humanitarian crisis in Darfur (‘Stalled UN is proving powerless to undo damage done by selfish states,’ Irish Examiner, September 29).

He is one of the very few I have read who has told us what is really happening in that forsaken corner of Africa.

The fat-cat diplomats at the UN security council have debated their way in and around this topic for months without reaching any conclusions.