An “infographic” overview of aerial attacks on civilians in Sudan, 1999 – 2011

An “infographic” overview of aerial attacks on civilians in Sudan, 1999 – 2011
(now included at www.sudanbombing.org)

Eric Reeves
August 17, 2011

My lengthy analysis and historical account of the Khartoum regime’s aerial assaults on civilians and humanitarians, 1999 – 2011, is available at www.sudanbombing.org (“They Bombed Everything that Moved”
Aerial military attacks on civilians and humanitarians in Sudan, 1999 – 2011).

More recently, I have added a one-page “infographic” representation of these data and the key findings of the report; it is available at www.sudanbombing.org.

To the original May report and Excel data spreadsheet, I have added a July update that brings total confirmed aerial attacks on civilian and humanitarian targets in Sudan to over 1,500 (the number of reported attacks is much greater, and the number of unreported attacks undoubtedly greater yet). These attacks by Khartoum’s Antonov “bombers,” helicopter gunships, and military jet aircraft have inflicted incalculable destruction and suffering on the people of South Sudan, Darfur, and now again in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan. These are atrocity crimes without historical precedent, and in aggregate are clearly crimes against humanity, as this term is defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (7.1).

The bombing has continued relentlessly to this day in both Darfur and the Nuba Mountains.