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Jan Pronk says arms are flooding into Darfur, violence is spreading, banditry is on the rise and rebels are staging attacks on oil facilities and that more police, human rights monitors and African Union peacekeepers are urgently needed.

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Romeo Dallaire says Canada and the rest of the world are ignoring Darfur

While we rush to assist tsunami victims in Asia, it is a "travesty" that Canada has failed to take a leadership role to help thousands of Africans being killed in the Darfur region of Sudan, says retired Gen. Roméo Dallaire.

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"I applaud the enormous work that we're doing and we must do with the catastrophe that is going on in Asia. But I am guilty and distraught by our ability to totally abandon a whole other group of humans," Dallaire said.

"As we pour ourselves into the great sense of commitment to humanity in Asia ... we must also have that same courage and determination, and demand of our politicians the same commitment to areas where the crisis is not by natural catastrophe but by human catastrophe," Dallaire said.

"And the absence of Canada in the forefront of Darfur, in Sudan is a travesty."

Rep. Frank Wolf just returned from the signing of the North/South peace agreement and called upon the UN Security Council to begin to deal with the situation in Darfur, suggesting that Kofi Annan should resign in protest if it fails to do so.