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Saturday, June 02, 2007
"At the heart of the shake-up are questions of whether the former executive director of the organization, the Save Darfur Coalition, wisely used a sudden influx of money from a few anonymous donors in an advertising blitz to push for action. The advertisements strained relationships with aid groups working on the ground in Darfur, the western region of Sudan, where at least 200,000 people have been killed and millions have fled their homes. Many of the groups opposed some of the tone and content of Save Darfur’s high-decibel advocacy campaign." (Notice that the number of Darfur victims here is 200,000 while the Washington Post cited 400,000 only a few days ago. This source says it is 300,000. Not to be outdone, this source raised the ante: "Between 500,000 and 2 million people are thought to have died." Who is counting? A 100,000 here or 100,000 there.)