The recent massacre of civilians in Muhajiriya (South Darfur)---by Khartoum's regular military forces and its Janjaweed militia allies---represents, in its vicious human destruction, the most conspicuous consequence of ...
Archives for October 2007
“Moral Equivalence,” from the Guardian (on-line), October 10, 2007
Lakhdar Brahimi, a former UN envoy to Iraq and one of several international eminences know as "the Elders," briefly toured Sudan last week and declared that the Darfur rebels were being "pampered" by the "international ...
Jimmy Carter on Genocide in Darfur, from The New Republic (on-line)
Last week, Jimmy Carter toured Sudan as part of a group of international celebrities who are calling themselves "the Elders." Founded by Nelson Mandela, the Elders aim--in the modest words of one member, British billionaire ...
“Darfur’s bitter ironies,” from The Guardian (on-line)
It is grimly ironic that a group of international eminences---the "Elders," as they are called---arrived in Khartoum on Sunday, the same day more than 10 African Union peacekeepers were killed during a large-scale rebel ...