Hundreds of thousands of civilians are directly threatened with genocidal destruction by the National Islamic Front Eric Reeves April 6, 2006 Jan Egeland, the UN's chief humanitarian official, was this week brazenly ...
Archives for May 2006
The UN Takes Its Turn at Posturing on Genocide in Darfur and Eastern Chad, April 19, 2006
US and Britain offer a token Security Council sanctions resolution, which is promptly rejected by China, Russia, and Qatar Eric Reeves April 18, 2006 The international community seems to have an inexhaustible capacity ...
African Union Decision on Darfur Mission Fails the “Rwanda Test,” March 15, 2006
Slashed humanitarian access and funding will produce massive near-term mortality Eric Reeves March 15, 2006 No voice has been more honest or courageous throughout the Darfur catastrophe than that of Jan Egeland, head ...
“How the world shed light on Darfur,” The Globe and Mail, May 13, 2006
WASHINGTON — Classes are over at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. and Eric Reeves should be starting a rest, long needed for a man in the midst of a battle against leukemia. But for the 56-year-old English professor, the ...
Darfur, President Bush, and the Triumph of Expediency, March 30, 2006
"President George Bush on Wednesday said that 'genocide has to be stopped' in western Sudan, and that involvement by NATO should send a 'clear signal'" Eric Reeves March 30, 2006 In remarks that do far more to ...
QUANTIFYING GENOCIDE IN DARFUR: May 13, 2006 (Part 2)
Part 1 of this mortality assessment (April 28, 2006), surveying all relevant extant data, concludes that since the outbreak of major conflict in Darfur (February 2003), over 450,000 people have died from violence, disease, ...
As Rainy Season Nears, Darfur Faces “Perfect Storm” of Human Destruction, March 7, 2006
Collapsing security, funding shortfalls, humanitarian evacuations, growing violence in Chad, looming war in Eastern Sudan---and political dithering by international community Eric Reeves March 7, 2006 The Economist ...