Current data for total mortality from violence, malnutrition, and disease Eric Reeves | June 30, 2005 A recent Reuters headline declares, "Darfur Death rate drops below crisis level---UN" (June 28, 2005). It is likely ...
Archives for August 2005
The “Two Darfurs”: Redefining a Crisis for Political Purposes, May 20, 2005
Amidst genocide by attrition, expedient misrepresentations are proliferating Eric Reeves May 20, 2005 Despite the unrelenting genocidal destruction that continues daily in Darfur, there is a growing effort in various ...
“I couldn’t leave these people,” Smith College Alumnae Quarterly, Spring 2005
In his office, tucked behind rows of shelves on the third floor of Neilson Library, English professor Eric Reeves has been glued to his computer since 7 a.m., even though he's officially on leave this year. He's been sending ...
“Sudan’s ‘Government of National Unity’: Prospects for meaningful peace in Darfur and South Sudan,” July 14, 2005
Eric Reeves July 14, 2005 This past weekend's inauguration of a new "government of national unity" (GNU) for Sudan, while unquestionably an historic event, hardly heralds immediate peace for either Darfur or Eastern ...
Congressional Briefing, “Genocidal Rape and Assault in Darfur,” July 21, 2005
"Genocidal Rape and Assault in Darfur" (Dirksen Senate Office Building & Rayburn House Office Building, July 21, 2005) Sponsored by members of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus & the Congressional Caucus on ...
3.5 Million Darfuris Need Food According to the UN World Food Program, June 8, 2005
They cannot be fed with investigations by the International Criminal Court Eric Reeves June 8, 2005 The mismatch between humanitarian capacity and human need grows more deadly by the day in Darfur. The most recent ...
Rape as a Strategic Weapon of War in Darfur, June 21, 2005
"In Darfur, rape is systematically used as a weapon of warfare," Jan Egeland, UN Under-secretary for Humanitarian Affairs, June 21, 2005 Eric Reeves June 25, 2005 Egeland's recourse to the present tense in describing ...
“we have learned nothing from Rwanda,” Kofi Annan (BBC, July 3, 2005)
speaking of history's judgment of the international response to Darfur (BBC, July 3, 2005) Eric Reeves July 6, 2005 "Are we going to repeat what happened in Rwanda?" asked UN Secretary-General Annan in a recent BCC ...