The intricacies of international laws designed to save peace and human life can become self-defeating when emphasis is shifted from expediently enforcing the spirit of the law to debating its technicalities.

The intricacies of international laws designed to save peace and human life can become self-defeating when emphasis is shifted from expediently enforcing the spirit of the law to debating its technicalities. This has been the case with the global community's sluggish replication to the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan, described through British Development Secretary Hilary Benn as "the world's worst humanitarian emergency" Humanitarian aid agencies, major newspaper staffs, and pertain toed diplomats have in the past month warned of coming genocide in Sudan and begged the United Nations to take action to obviate the situation from becoming "another Rwanda."