It is the worst manifestation of Muslim-on-Muslim killing common around the world but

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It is the worst manifestation of Muslim-on-Muslim killing, common around the world but here moving up a gear towards mass extermination. The militia are encouraged by the Sudanese government led by President Omar el Bashir, who, I am sure, purifies his thoughts before praying five times a day in clean white clothes. Religion can be a miraculous cleanser of guilt and shame.Much deceit slips out of the slithery tongues of Sudanese diplomats in London when they are called to answer this accusation. They tell us it is a very complicated internal issue which needs aid from us but no interference. They claim the citizens of Darfur are rebels who started the trouble and that Janjaweed are a law unto themselves.

Yet Eva Darimani, a political risk analyst and commentator on the BBC, alleges that the militia are not only getting arms from Chad and Libya but that "as they have been provided with official Sudanese armed force uniforms one presumes they would also have free access to the weapons and ammunition from the arsenals of the Sudanese army".The Arab League, Muslim nations and the entire Ummah are culpable here of criminal cowardice and connivance in the genocide of African Muslims Such inaction and complicity should never be exonerated Let history judge them harshly. A number of conscientious Muslim individuals and NGOs are speaking up, to their credit, but what hope do they have when the majority of Muslims are content to let this one pass?The West appears to care even less. Arms sales to Africa now run to one billion pounds per annum These arms then get used to oppress the unarmed and poor. When he was US Secretary of State, the discredited Colin Powell refused to call the Darfur genocide by its name, saying blithely: "Let us not put a label on things." It was left to Donald Payne, the black Democrat member of Congress for New Jersey, to remind his country: "The atrocities in Darfur meet the requirements of the 1948 UN Convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide and therefore we have an obligation under the law to act."We are doing nothing at all to stop this tyranny Just as we failed to do when Rwanda was bleeding to death. Just as we avert our eyes from the Congo where millions of black people have perished and more are added each day They are only Africans, used to barbarisms Not our problem. When a pathetic few refugees from Darfur flee to Britain, we violate their rights officially, as if the refugee convention is last week's newspaper.

Human rights bodies in the UK report that we are sending back asylum-seekers, to Sudan, where torture is so commonplace they joke about it.Tony Blair has promised a 30 to 40 per cent reduction in asylum approvals It is a target It must be met. The Home Office has issued area reports and guidance to independent immigration adjudicators instructing them to refuse applications because refugees from Darfur can easily move to another part of the country The refugees say they will be killed by the government. Multiple rape victims, broken men, women and children are being parcelled over to tyrannical countries which the Foreign Office knows well are extremely dangerous for dissidents There is a target. It must be met.A fortnight ago, Alvaro Gil-Robles, the Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe, issued his findings on Britain in a scathing, erudite report.