Throughout history, humans have inflicted harm on each other through massacre. Groups that have lived side by side for generations without extreme tension often end up becoming each other's worst enemy. This pattern will likely continue indefinitely, but with twentieth century inventions, massacres are now much harder to keep secret than in previous centuries. (Brunner and Mills, 19.) Through the mass media, we became instant spectators of Somalia, Rwanda, East Timor, Liberia and Sierra Leone. With the immediacy that we see these conflicts unfold, the nature of intervention has changed, and the question arises; why does the West intervene in some instances of massacre, and avoids others? NATO intervened to stop Milosevic's ethnic cleansing in Kosovo in 1999, yet a similar approach has not been attempted in the similar and current conflict in Darfur. The lack of a threat that Darfur poses to the international community, the issue of racism and the subsequent lack of media......

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Title: Why Are We Ignoring Darfur?
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