On Genocide in Darfur: Eric Reeves December 30, 2003 from Africa InfoServe (Sudan publications of AfricaFiles.org) http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=4075 [excerpt] It is intolerable that the international community continues to allow what all evidence suggests is genocide. For surely if we are honest with ourselves we will accept that the term “ethnic cleansing” is no more than a [...]

Eric Reeves December 30, 2003 Peace talks in Naivasha (Kenya) between the National Islamic Front (NIF) regime and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) are now addressing the last major issue outstanding, the status of the three brutally marginalized areas of Abyei, the Nuba Mountains, and Southern Blue Nile. The indigenous peoples of these regions [...]

Eric Reeves December 22, 2003 It is the central paradox of peace in Sudan: any peace agreement will oblige the National Islamic Front regime to share not only wealth, but power. And any such sharing will inevitably put the regime at acute risk, given its past dependence upon tyranny, a brutally efficient set of overlapping [...]

Eric Reeves December 17, 2003 Though expressing “deep concern” and offering at least a glimpse of the catastrophe unfolding in Darfur province in western Sudan, yesterday’s statement by Richard Boucher of the US State Department does not address key issues in the Darfur crisis. It is compromised in particular by a failure to speak of [...]

Eric Reeves December 16, 2003 All evidence presently available, from an increasing number of sources, suggests that the National Islamic Front regime in Khartoum is using the denial and manipulation of humanitarian access as a weapon of war in the western province of Darfur. The targets of this “weapon” are the African peoples of Darfur, [...]

Eric Reeves December 12, 2003 A range of international diplomats are now speaking of the vast human destruction and displacement in Darfur Province of western Sudan as “ethnic cleansing.” UN officials are also speaking of the crisis in Darfur within the context of allegations of “ethnic cleansing.” Various reports over the last several days (from [...]

Eric Reeves December 9, 2003 The White House began its December 8, 2003 press briefing by announcing that President Bush had earlier in the day called both National Islamic Front President Omer Beshir and SPLM/A Chairman John Garang. This is an extraordinary fact unto itself, and makes clear the priority the Bush administration attaches to [...]

Eric Reeves December 6, 2003 Signs that a peace agreement between Khartoum and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) will be reached within the next month continue to increase. Yesterday saw news of both the arrival in Khartoum of a senior SPLM/A delegation, as well as an important agreement between the Khartoum regime and the [...]

Eric Reeves November 24, 2003 Largely invisibly, but with remorseless intensity, the war and attendant humanitarian crisis in Darfur continue to expand. Human destruction and displacement have accelerated at an alarming rate, with many thousands dead or dying, and well over half a million displaced. The remoteness of this large region in Sudan (it is [...]

Eric Reeves November 14, 2003 Although the Khartoum regime may yet collapse the Machakos/IGAD peace talks seeking to end Sudan’s civil war, the prospect of a peace agreement in the very near term is so clear that some assessment must be made of present international readiness to provide the necessary UN peace support operation. Any [...]