NAIROBI, Kenya, Sept. 14 ââ?¬â? The number of people killed in Sudanââ?¬â?¢s Darfur conflict has reached into the hundreds of thousands ââ?¬â? not tens of thousands as has often been reported, according to an article appearing Friday in the journal Science.
By using scientific sampling techniques and data from camps for displaced persons, two researchers based in the United States estimated that as many as 255,000 people have died, though they believe the actual number may be much higher.ââ?¬Å?We could easily be talking about 400,000 deaths,ââ?¬Â said John Hagan, a sociologist at Northwestern University and an author of the article, along with Alberto Palloni, a demographer at the University of Wisconsin. ââ?¬Å?And when youââ?¬â?¢re talking about genocide, itââ?¬â?¢s essential to properly identify the scale of death,ââ?¬Â Dr. Hagan said in a telephone interview.