Spare a moment for the Sudanese people, whose suffering doesn’t get nearly enough attention.

El Fashir in western Darfur was home to more than a million people before the siege began 18 months ago. By the time the Arab rebels seized control this week from African tribesmen fighting alongside the Sudanese military, only about 250,000 starving civilians remained. After they subsisted on weeds and animal feed for a year-and-a-half, thousands of emaciated survivors were massacred. One of the worst atrocities occurred at a hospital, where more than 460 patients and staff were murdered.

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