China and Sudan: Defining the Turning Point
In her posting yesterday, Mia Farrow identifies the success of the "genocide Olympics" campaign—which she was instrumental in starting—as a "defining moment." She is right. For the first time, an...
View ArticleDarfur: Dimensions and Dilemmas of a Complex Crisis
The point of departure for the report, Darfur: Dimensions and Dilemmas of a Complex Situation, published by the Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research, is a field study conducted...
View ArticleThe Bombing of Shigeg Karo and the Miserable Response
Posted on behalf of Julie Flint.At 2 pm on Sunday 4 May, a single Antonov bomber targeted the village of Shegeg Karo in North Darfur, destroying the market and hitting the village school during...
View ArticleShigeg Karo One Week On
Six days after the aerial attack on Shigeg Karo, UNAMID has finally spoken out, in a press release that raises more questions than it answers. A verification team visited Shigeg Karo on Thursday—a full...
View ArticleAbusing “Genocide”: Why Comparisons with the Holocaust Mislead
Earlier this year in the run up to the release of the anti Islam ‘film’ Fitna by the Dutch maverick right-wing politician Geert Wilders, the leading Dutch political scientist Job van Amerongen warned...
View ArticleOn Writing Sudan (And Getting It Wrong)
Last Sunday the Washington Post ran a column by me in the section This Writing Life. It begins:Some years ago in a rebel-held enclave of Sudan, I met a man whom I had reported as assassinated. He was...
View ArticleFamine Crimes and Tragedies
Starvation isn’t an accident of nature. Starving more like wounding—something people do to one another. For many years I was a staunch advocate of criminalizing some forms of famine creation—especially...
View ArticleSudan: Double Standards?
Abd al-Wahab Abdalla (25 March) says “The worst massacre of the last 12 months was by JEM! It killed 128 Meidob over 2 days.”There have been a number of allusions on this blog to the unrest at JEM’s...
View ArticleDarfur: Attention and Deterrence
Several posts over recent days have pointed to the discrepancy between media attention and levels of mortality. The analysis of media coverage of Darfur during and after the height of hostilities in...
View ArticleA Visit to Kober Prison
Any human rights activist who has worked on Sudan is familiar with the name Kober prison, the century-old British building which was ‘Cooper Prison’ for its first half century, and which has...
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