DARFUR UPDATE: The Arab League is resisting action:

The Arab League has rejected any sanctions or international military intervention as a response to the crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region. Arab foreign ministers at an emergency session in Cairo backed Khartoum’s measures to disarm Arab militias and punish human rights violators. . . .

Human Rights Watch has demanded the Arab League “stand behind the victims” in Darfur.

Its Africa division chief Peter Takirambudde accused Sudan of “trying to manipulate opinion in the Arab world to hide the massive crimes it has committed against Sudanese citizens

Gary Silberberg is unimpressed, and says they’re “in league with genocide.” And read this eyewitness report, too.