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Sudan Research, Analysis, and Advocacy

by Eric Reeves

The UN Cannot Bring Itself to Speak Honestly About Darfur: The present broader uprising in Sudan seems sure to diminish any inclination to do so

21 January 2019 | Briefs & Advocacy: 2019, Top News | Author: ereeves | 170 words

The UN Cannot Bring Itself to Speak Honestly About Darfur:

The present broader uprising in Sudan seems sure to diminish any inclination to do so

Eric Reeves  |  January 21, 2019

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has already made perfectly clear that he has no stomach for speaking truth to power in Khartoum–and this extends to his shameful reporting on Darfur. As context for the dispatch from Radio Dabanga below, see my analysis: “A very Violent Month in the Darfur Genocide,” November 23, 2018 | https://wp.me/p45rOG-2jH 

Guterres is only the latest senior UN official to accommodate, defer to, or even lie for the benefit of the regime that is now being targeted my mass protests throughout Sudan. He is as disgraceful as his predecessors as UN Secretary General and the previous head of UNAMID, as well as the African Union Peace and Security Council:

Again for a detailed analysis of the period in question, see my | “A very Violent Month in the Darfur Genocide,” November 23, 2018 | https://wp.me/p45rOG-2jH 

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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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