As news coverage of the vast human suffering and destruction in Darfur continues to diminish---as international reporting remains the province of disingenuous officials of the UN and UN/African Union Mission in Darfur ...
Archives for August 2011
“Does the New York Times Editorial Board really care about accuracy?”
July 9, 2011 Letter to the Editor New York Times In its July 9 editorial on the emergence of an independent South Sudan, the NYT makes a serious error in characterizing the Obama administration’s Sudan ...
“Yet More Compelling Evidence of Atrocity Crimes in South Kordofan”
"Yet More Compelling Evidence of Atrocity Crimes in South Kordofan" Eric Reeves | August 26, 2011 | http://wp.me/p45rOG-Fr The most recent report on atrocity crimes in South Kordofan was published on Tuesday, August ...
“A Looming Spectacle of UN Impotence,” Dissent Magazine, 19 August 2011
Eric Reeves • This week the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) demanded a thorough UN investigation of events in South Kordofan, Sudan over the past two months. During this period the Khartoum ...
“Reporting Darfur: Radio Dabanga and the ‘Black Box’ Genocide” African Arguments (on-line), August 18, 2011
In its eight-year battle to turn Darfur into a "black box," Khartoum is largely prevailing. The National Islamic Front/National Congress Party (NIF/NCP) little expected that the genocidal counterinsurgency war it launched in ...
“A Creeping Military Coup in Khartoum,” Dissent Magazine, August 10, 2011
"A Creeping Military Coup in Khartoum," Dissent Magazine, August 10, 2011 Eric Reeves, 10 August 2011 On August 2, the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime in Khartoum decided to delay the medical ...
“Sudan’s self-inflicted economic distress” The Guardian (on-line), August 1, 2011
To understand the obstacles the nascent Republic of South Sudan will face in the coming months and years, we must understand the intense economic distress currently being experienced in north Sudan after more than two decades ...