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What is the Meaning of the Darfur Cease-fire Agreement? In All Likelihood, Virtually Nothing Without Additional International Pressure, April 9, 2004

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 3559 words

Eric Reeves April 9, 2004 The agreement reached yesterday in N'Djamena (Chad), providing for a cease-fire of 45 days and nominally for humanitarian access, suggests how quickly international pressure can influence ...

Even As an Agreement in Naivasha Now Appears Imminent, Khartoum Continues Campaigns of Human Destruction in Southern Sudan and Darfur, April 6, 2004

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 2137 words

Eric Reeves April 6, 2004 Authoritative reports from the Naivasha talks in Kenya, including dispatches from Reuters and Agence France-Presse, suggest that US pressure---exerted with a deadline defined by the rapid ...

No Further Evasion of the Essential Question: What Will We Do in Darfur? — April 4, 2004

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 2760 words

Eric Reeves April 4, 2004 On the very eve of the Rwandan genocide the international community seems finally to have found its voice in condemning the Khartoum regime's brutal, systematic displacement and destruction of ...

The Shilluk Kingdom in Southern Sudan is Going up in Flames: Khartoum stokes the fires, as international monitoring team does nothing, April 2, 2004

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 1919 words

Eric Reeves April 2, 2004 The perversity of the irony could not be greater: even as the international community is finally finding its voice in condemning Khartoum's massive crimes against humanity in Darfur, the regime ...

Khartoum’s National Islamic Front Speaks to the International Community: With Contempt, with Obduracy, and with Cynical Dishonesty, March 31, 2004

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 3009 words

Eric Reeves March 31, 2004 The past two days have been especially revealing of the National Islamic Front regime's deep and ongoing contempt for both international humanitarian assessments and international diplomatic ...

On a Tribunal for ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ in Darfur: “There are no secrets. The individuals who are doing this are known…. One can only conclude that it is state-sanctioned” (Mukesh Kapila, UN humanitarian coordinator for Sudan), March 29, 2004

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 1417 words

Eric Reeves March 29, 2004 Mukesh Kapila, the courageous and remarkably forthright UN humanitarian coordinator for Sudan, has said what urgently required saying: that those responsible for the immense, deliberate, ...

“Ethnic Cleansing” or Genocide in Darfur? Let us be sure that a debate about definition does not obscure the realities of human suffering and destruction, March 25, 2004

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 2577 words

Eric Reeves March 25, 2004 As the massive scale of deliberate, systematic human destruction and displacement in Darfur becomes relentlessly clearer, and as the ethnic hatred animating this savagery becomes steadily more ...

Rwanda Redux? As the Catastrophe in Darfur Continues to Accelerate, There Are Still No Signs of International Humanitarian Intervention, March 22, 2004

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 1679 words

Eric Reeves March 22, 2004 Mukesh Kapila, in the waning days of his tenure as UN humanitarian coordinator for Sudan, has presented the world with the starkest assessment to date of the realities in Darfur, far western ...

International Committee of the Red Cross on Darfur Humanitarian Access: “[We are] not in a position to carry out meaningful humanitarian operations,” March 7, 2004

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 1493 words

Eric Reeves March 7, 2004 Following an unprecedented trip to Khartoum, including a meeting with National Islamic Front President Omer Beshir, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Jakob ...

Planning for Humanitarian Intervention in Darfur—Many Thousands Are Dying: When Will This Matter Enough? — March 2, 2004

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 2793 words

Eric Reeves March 2, 2004 As Darfur slides further into an engulfing catastrophe, almost certainly entailing more than 1,000 civilian casualties per week, the international community faces a critical moral decision: will ...