Mr. Speaker, yesterday was the fourth anniversary of the beginning of the conflict in Darfur.
In the past four years 200,000 people have been killed and at least two million more have been displaced. Currently, approximately four million people are receiving humanitarian aid.
The situation is so bad that the United Nations has called it the world's greatest humanitarian emergency. Weak, uncoordinated efforts by the international community over the past four years have done nothing to alleviate the suffering. That is why, today, members and senators from all parties join me in urging the government to take different measures and mobilize the international community to resolve this ongoing humanitarian crisis.
I would also like to remind my hon. colleagues that, as Edmund Burke said, “It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph”.