Dr. Marie-Pierre Allié, President of the French section of Médecins Sans Frontières, January 16:
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been present during armed conflicts for nearly four decades. It is difficult to recall a comparable slaughter of civilians in so little time. Whether Mogadishu, Somalia, or Kivu, in the eastern Congo, Sri Lanka or even Darfur – none of these wars has involved operations that produced so many deaths by direct violence in such a short period of time.