In Washington Thursday, Illinois Senator Barak Obama urged international intervention: “They can excuse themselves for inaction by saying 'we didn't know.’ This is not one of those circumstances. This is being filmed. It’s being documented. People have written about it. It is a slow rolling genocide. And the notion that we are going to standby in the face of this is unacceptable. And I think this is unacceptable to the American people. And my hope is that it is unacceptable to the international community.”