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Well, first I want to thank ambassador Bolton and all of you for inviting us here today and taking the time to talk with us.
I'll make you two promises: the first is that I'll be brief; and the second is that I won't try to educate you on the issues of Darfur and the regions around it. There's nothing I can say that you don't already know. You know the numbers. You know the urgency. And you know how bad this is likely to get.
I'm here to represent the voices of the people who cannot speak for themselves. And from our side, we are not so naive either. We know how difficult the task this is. We understand how many issues are in front of you this moment, each needing great care and attention. But you are the U.N. and this is a task that you have been given. You have to decide what's most urgent. You have responsibility to protect.
In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. The United States has called it "genocide". For you it's called "ethnic cleansing." But make no mistake: it is the first genocide of the twenty-first century. And if it continues unchecked it will not be the last.
Now my job is to come here today and to beg you on behalf of the millions of people who will die, and make no mistake they will die, for you to take real and effective measures to put an end to this. Of course it's complex, but when you see entire villages raped and killed, wells poisoned and then filled with the bodies of its villagers, then all complexities disappear and it comes down to simply right and wrong. It's not getting better. It's getting much, much worse. And it is only the international community that can help us.
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