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Sudan Research, Analysis, and Advocacy

by Eric Reeves

A partial list of those declaring Darfur to be the site of genocide

18 April 2017 | Misc. Documents, Letters | Author: ereeves | 291 words

A partial list of those declaring Darfur to be the site of genocide:

The US Congress declared in July 2004—in a unanimous, bipartisan, bicameral vote—that genocide was occurring in Darfur;

The Parliament of the European Union passed a resolution in September 2004 declaring the realities of human destruction in Darfur were “tantamount to genocide”; the vote was 566 to 6;

Senior officials of the British, French and German governments;

Physicians for Human Rights, including the distinguished international jurist Richard Goldstone;

US Committee for Refugees;

American Jewish World Service;

Africa Action;

African Center for Justice and Peace Studies;

Justice Africa (UK);

Yad Vashem;

Enough Project, Washington DC;

Genocide Watch;

Bill Shultz, former head of Amnesty International/USA;

Rómeo Dallaire, force commander of the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR), 1993 – 1994;

President George W. Bush;

Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell in testimony to the Congress (this on the basis of a comprehensive study undertaken by the Coalition for International Justice);

Senator, candidate, and President Barack Obama;

Samantha Power, Obama administration Ambassador to the UN and author of “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide;

Obama administration Ambassador to the UN and subsequently National Security Adviser Susan Rice;

Former Senior NSC Africa Adviser in the Obama administration and current administrator of USAID Gayle Smith;

The Parliament of the European Union passed a resolution in September 2004—over a year ago—by a vote of 566 to 6, also declaring the realities of human destruction in Darfur are “tantamount to genocide”;

The Committee on Conscience of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum issued in 2004 an unprecedented genocide finding for Darfur;

Scores of prominent genocide and international law scholars;

Countless Sudanese academics, humanitarians, human rights activists, and leaders of internally displaced persons in Darfur.

 

 

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cer1 Eric Reeves has been writing about greater Sudan for the past twenty-three years. His work is here organized chronologically, and includes all electronic and other publications since the signing of the historic Machakos Protocol (July 2002), which guaranteed South Sudan the right to a self- determination referendum. There are links to a number of Reeves’ formal publications in newspapers, news magazines, academic journals, and human rights publications, as well as to the texts of his Congressional testimony and a complete list of publications, testimony, and academic presentations.
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