March 1, 2000

Last month, on statistical average, 10,000 Sudanese died of war-related causes.* If patterns of the past hold, they were overwhelmingly civilians in the south of Sudan, disproportionately women and children.

This approximates the casualty figure for the entire Kosovo conflict. It will be replicated again this month.

Lest we forget.

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*“Working Document II: Quantifying Genocide in Southern Sudan and the Nuba Mountains, 1983-1998” [84 pp], by Millard Burr, Ph.D. (December 1998). Documentation produced for the US Committee for Refugees. Over the last 14 months, this definitive and exhaustively researched report has been augmented by reports from the UN Special Rapporteur, the UN World Food Program, the US Agency for International Development, numerous human rights and humanitarian organizations, and by extensive on-the-ground news reporting.