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Sudan Research, Analysis, and Advocacy

by Eric Reeves

“Does the New York Times Editorial Board really care about accuracy?”

28 August 2011 | Selected Blog Entries | Author: ereeves | 133 words

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 policy:

“The Obama administration, correctly, is not taking Sudan off its terrorism list and normalizing relations until Khartoum fulfills the peace deal and ends the conflict in Darfur.”

In fact, last November a senior administration official explicitly and publicly “de-coupled” the genocide in Darfur (Obama’s campaign characterization) and the issue of Khartoum’s longstanding place on the US State Department list of terrorism- sponsoring nations.  This was, and remains, a serious error in judgment.

Eric Reeves

Smith College

Northampton, MA  01063

413-585-3326

[Eric Reeves is author of A Long Day’s Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide (2007)]

 

About the Author

cer1 Eric Reeves has been writing about greater Sudan for the past twenty-three years. His work is here organized chronologically, and includes all electronic and other publications since the signing of the historic Machakos Protocol (July 2002), which guaranteed South Sudan the right to a self- determination referendum. There are links to a number of Reeves’ formal publications in newspapers, news magazines, academic journals, and human rights publications, as well as to the texts of his Congressional testimony and a complete list of publications, testimony, and academic presentations.
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