A Compendium of Recent Brief Commentaries/News Dispatches on Violence, Security Threats in Darfur (Number 2)
Eric Reeves | July 1 – July 24, 2018 | https://wp.me/p45rOG-2gj
(see also @SudanReeves on Twitter and previous Compendium | June 16 – June 30, 2018 | https://wp.me/p45rOG-2fQ )
July 24, 2018
Vicious assaults on non-Arab/African farmers continue to occur throughout Darfur—by Khartoum’s Arab militias and various armed Arab groups—and come at a critical time in the agricultural season, increasing threat of massive and extreme malnutrition throughout the region. A gutted and completely enfeebled UNAMID provides no protection:
July 20, 2018
Khartoum’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have created a crisis of immense proportions, as displaced persons—especially farmers—attempting to return to their lands and villages in Darfur continue to be murdered, raped, and brutally assaulted. This is clearly Khartoum’s policy:
July 18, 2018
As the final gutting of UNAMID in Darfur nears completion, Khartoum smells victory in its long war of attrition with this miserable failure of a mission. That Vice President Hassabo is in charge of “safe returns” is a savage irony, revealing the bankruptcy of the international response to Darfur’s continuing genocide:
July 16, 2018
UNAMID to have established an operating base in Golo, Central Darfur, heart of the broader Jebel Marra region. The base is still not operational and attacks continue on innocent civilians, such as those in the Turr area near Nierteti—less than 25 miles from the supposed UNAMID “base”:
July 15, 2018
The people of Darfur are being destroyed by Sudan’s collapsing economy and its effects on agriculture, as well as by the failure of the international community to address seriously the inability of displaced non-Arab persons to return to their lands and villages. Famine looms amidst ongoing violence directed against non-Arab/African farms and farmers:
July 14, 2018
In her last press conference as U.S. ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power proclaimed a “sea change of improvement” in humanitarian access in Sudan—a demonstrably false statement never corrected by any U.S. government official. It was an expedient effort to justify U.S. rapprochement with Khartoum, and ignored the ways in which violence in Darfur continues to make humanitarian deliveries impossible in many areas:
July 11, 2018
One reason that Khartoum wants to dismantle Darfur’s camps for displaced persons? They are a constant reminder, if the world would only look, of the appalling neglect this brutal regime is guilty of—the grossly inadequate investment in the lives/livelihoods of the displaced:
July 9, 2018
Here are some of the many displaced persons in Darfur not included in UN OCHA’s published figures. We have no confirmed figures, but Radio Dabanga, with extensive contacts throughout the greater Jebel Marra region, estimates 50,000. International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda used a figure of 80,000 in speaking recently to the UN Security Council:
July 8, 2018
While quick to point to the “returns” of displaced persons in Darfur—returns that typically end in violent failure and returns to IDP camps—the UN and African Union have yet to come up with a credible figure for those newly displaced this year in the greater Jebel Marra area:
July 6, 2018
Khartoum’s hostility to the UN/AU peacekeeping force in Darfur is one reason the Mission has failed so badly. On numerous occasions the regime has orchestrated attacks on UNAMID personnel: http://wp.me/p45rOG-11S The regime’s claim to be “protecting civilians” is pure mendacity:
July 3, 2018
The European Union’s Dumond is cynically willing to bribe the genocidal Khartoum regime as a means of enlisting its help in stopping flow of African migrants to Europe, even if they are fleeing ethnic targeting and extreme political persecution. Xenophobia reigns in Europe as well as the U.S.:
July 1, 2018
How to explain this headline: “International efforts to solve Sudan peace talks [at] impasse”? (Radio Dabanga, July 1): “Dr Amin Omar, the government [official] responsible the Darfur file blamed rebel leaders for refusing to join the existing Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD).”
The next compendium will comprised recent dispatches and commentaries on the collapsing Sudanese economy:
July 2, 2018
The world is indifferent to massive suffering in Sudan that is a direct result of collapsing economy growing out of three decades of gross mismanagement by NIF/NCP regime. There is no international pressure for reform, either political or economic: narrow self-interest guides cynical policies: 