Today we are presented with a great opportunity to work in a bipartisan fashion to achieve a humanitarian result in responding to the overwhelming suffering in Darfur. Not since the Rwandan genocide of 1994 has the world seen such a systematic campaign of displacement. starvation. rape. mass murder. and terror as we are witnessing in Darfur for the last three years. At least 400.000 people have been killed. more than 2 million innocent civilians have been forced to flee their homes and now live in displacedpersons camps in Sudan or in refugee camps in neighboring Chad. and more than 3.5 million men. women. and children are completely reliant on intemational aid for survival. Unless the world stirs from its slumber and takes concerted and decisive action to relieve this suffering. the ongoing genocide in Darfur will stand as one of the blackest marks on humankind for centuries to come. The people of Darfur cannot wait.