The security crisis confronting humanitarian operations in Darfur and eastern Chad has deepened dangerously in the past several weeks. A new level of violence and brazen attacks on aid workers has produced large-scale ...
Archives for December 2006
“Push China, save Darfur,” from The Sunday Boston Globe, December 17, 2006
CATACLYSMIC HUMAN destruction in Sudan's Darfur region and in eastern Chad continues to accelerate, even as the international community remains inert. Humanitarian workers are being evacuated at an alarming rate, as violence ...
“The Genocide Olympics”
The Washington Post asks on its editorial page of December 14, 2006 whether the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing will be remembered as the "Genocide Olympics." Given China's unstinting diplomatic support for Khartoum's National ...
Darfur: Civilian Destruction Accelerates, International Failure Keeps Pace
Full-scale humanitarian collapse in Darfur looms ever closer, even as the violence that will occasion this collapse relentlessly increases. Hundreds of humanitarian workers have been evacuated in recent weeks from North ...
Humanitarian Assistance in Darfur and Eastern Chad is Rapidly Collapsing
Evacuations of humanitarian personnel have in recent days accelerated dramatically in both North Darfur and eastern Chad. Today over 100 international aid workers, primarily non-essential staff, were evacuated from ...
“Why the Addis Ababa ‘agreement’ on Darfur is anything but”
Late this summer, after the U.N. Security Council gave the go-ahead to send 22,500 troops and police to end the genocide in Darfur, in the form of Resolution 1706, Khartoum adamantly refused to accept the U.N. force. But, on ...