The chances for effective deployment of civilian police and well-trained military forces to Darfur continue to be compromised by excessive international accommodation of the National Islamic Front (National Congress Party) ...
Archives for September 2007
President Bush and Steven Spielberg: WATCHING THE GENOCIDE OLYMPICS
AN international outcry over Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympic Games has grown steadily louder in recent months. How, it is being asked, can the premier event in international sports be hosted by a nation complicit in the ...
Does Genocide Continue in Darfur?
DOES GENOCIDE continue in Darfur? Do we still see "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, [Darfur's African ethnic groups] as such," the high standard set by the 1948 UN Genocide Convention? The question ...
Ban Ki-moon in Sudan: Vacuous Diplomacy and Specious Declarations
Although still notionally "in progress," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's mission to Sudan on behalf of Darfur has clearly failed to register significant political progress on any front. And insofar as this mission marks a ...