 The death toll from the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan has been grossly underestimated, a British parliamentary committee said Wednesday. The House of Commons International Development Committee said the number of dead was likely around 300,000, more than four times the World Health Organization's estimate of 70,000. The cross-party committee also criticized the international community's response as "scandalously ineffective." They said the WHO's figure was inaccurate as it only included violent deaths in internal camps for displaced Sudanese and not those killed in settlement attacks.
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The committee said the international community and U.N. Security Council had to take some of the blame for the situation, partly because early warnings about the crisis were ignored and response was slow. |