Eric Reeves • Two agreements about the dangerous crises in Sudan were signed in the past few days: one purporting to address the Abyei crisis (http://reliefweb.int/node/422034), the other the massive ethnically targeted ...
Archives for June 2011
“International Crimes and Threats to Peace in Sudan are Mounting Rapidly”
"International Crimes and Threats to Peace in Sudan are Mounting Rapidly" Eric Reeves | June 28, 2011 | http://wp.me/p45rOG-BL After so many years of work on Sudan, I thought myself fully braced for the worst the ...
“Sudan: The Horror Continues—And the World Sits By,” The New Republic, June 24, 2011
The ethnically targeted human destruction in South Kordofan in Sudan, directed overwhelmingly at the African peoples of the Nuba Mountains, continues to spread and intensify. Many are warning of a "new Darfur," a reprise of ...
“Genocide in Sudan: Is it Happening Again?” The New Republic, June 20, 2011
Two weeks after Khartoum's tanks, artillery, and military aircraft began moving into South Kordofan, violence—especially against civilians---continues to explode. There are now scores of reliable reports that attacks ...
“Renewed War Looms in Sudan, as the International Community Prevaricates,” Dissent Magazine, May 24, 2011
"Renewed War Looms in Sudan, as the International Community Prevaricates," Dissent Magazine, May 24, 2011 Eric Reeves, 24 May 2011 War reignited in South Sudan on May 19, 2011. The Khartoum regime, which has been ...
Khartoum is preparing for a new round of humanitarian expulsions in Darfur | 14 June 2011
"Sudan to announce 'decisive' resolutions on Darfur 'Western' aid groups" (from Sudan Tribune, June 13, 2011 [KHARTOUM]) Sudanese authorities have been assessing the performance of "Western" aid agencies in the country's ...
“Obama’s Second ‘Rwanda Moment'”
"Obama's Second 'Rwanda Moment'" Eric Reeves | June 13, 2011 | http://wp.me/p45rOG-BE Recalling President Bill Clinton's massive moral failure in the face of the Rwandan genocide of spring 1994, many spoke of Darfur as ...
“Darfur and Ban Ki-moon’s Bid for a Second Term,” from Dissent Magazine, June 10, 2011
"Darfur and Ban Ki-moon's Bid for a Second Term," from Dissent Magazine, June 10, 2011 Eric Reeves, 10 June 2011 [Note added June 10, 2011: Ban Ki-moon has been no less a disaster for the South, Abyei, and now South ...
“Khartoum Dramatically Escalates War in Sudan”
"Khartoum Dramatically Escalates War in Sudan" http://wp.me/p45rOG-BC Highlights of reports, as of 7pm (GM -5) June 9: As in Abyei, the military actions by Khartoum in South Kordofan were clearly premeditated. The ...
“Violence in South Kordofan: What is Being Reported,” June 7, 2011 (4pm EST)
This compendium is not a narrative of events, but rather a compilation of what has been credibly reported or asserted by a wide range of sources. The facts have yet to be fully determined, and the larger ambitions of ...