Foreign vs. Domestic Policy in Darfur

The problem with Darfur, in terms of the rationale for why there has been a universal lack of action to end the genocide is the inability for the international community to recognize what it would feel like for the genocide to be happening to them. What if your mother, sister, or any other female was raped? What if your son, daughter, niece, nephew became child soldiers? What if your family was systematically murdered before your eyes? You might not want to imagine any of these scenarios, but the truth is these actions are occurring the people in Darfur every hour, every day. The United Nations reports anywhere from 200,000 to 400,000 people have been brutally killed in the atrocities in Darfur and another 2.3 million people have been displaced by the violence, many fleeing to neighboring Chad. These numbers can be altered if the conflict in Darfur was viewed as domestic policy, instead of foreign policy, or something that is happening "far away."