Madeleine Albright, Rwanda, and Darfur: How Genocides Happen | Updated November 21, 2015 (originally published June 12, 2014) By Dr. Eric Reeves   A policy response to this analysis is increasingly urgent, given the growing intensity of slaughter and violent farm land expropriations by Khartoum's regular Sudan Armed Forces and its militia allies, the Rapid Response Forces.  This is particularly true given what we learn from an extraordinary

Kleptocracy in Khartoum: Self-Enrichment by the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party Dr. Eric Reeves, Enough Forum 1 December 2015   Link: http://www.enoughproject.org/files/EnoughForum_KleptocracyInKhartoum_Reeves_Dec2015.pdf        

“Changing the Demography”: Violent Expropriation and Destruction of Farmlands in Darfur, November 2014 – November 2015″ By Dr. Eric Reeves (Author), and Maya Baca (Researcher and Editor) 13 December 2015 This final distillation of dispatches from Radio Dabanga takes a very lengthy and more radical form, explained in the narrative that follows. Using all data from the past year (November 1, 2014 – present), I have represented violent expropriation

“Khartoum Steps up its War on Humanitarian Relief Efforts in Darfur”    Dr. Eric Reeves 15 December 2015           Radio Dabanga reports today that one of the major International Nongovernmental (Humanitarian) Organizations (INGOs) still operating in Darfur was assaulted yesterday (December 14, 2015) by security forces in Nierteti (formerly West Darfur, now part of a factitious “Central Darfur”). The character of the assault on UK-based

“Khartoum and Terrorism: What we knew before the horrors of the Paris attacks” Dr. Eric Reeves 16 November 2015   “Khartoum has strongly condemned the terrorist attacks that struck the French capital Paris on Friday, expressing its ‘full solidarity with France … to combat violence and fundamentalism.’” (Radio Dabanga, November 16, 2015) Or so the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime would have us believe. But remarks

A Massive Catastrophe Looming in Darfur: Forcing Displaced Persons from Camps in Darfur is a Prelude to Camp Dismantling  Dr. Eric Reeves 5 January 2016 Recent statements from the Khartoum regime’s Second Vice-President, Hasabo Mohamed Abdelrahman, suggest that the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party is in fact moving more aggressively toward its long-announced plans to shut down and dismantle the camps for displaced persons in Darfur,

UN Displacement Figures for Darfur: Assessment, Confused Guesses, or Dissimulation? By Dr. Eric Reeves 20 December 2015                                      I have written on a number of occasions about the implausible, self-contradictory, and deliberately distorting nature of UN figures for displaced persons in Darfur (see Appendix B). The problems seems endemic at this point, and reporting is neither consistent with itself nor

American Lives, Sudanese Lives: What’s the Calculus in Congress? By Eric Reeves 29 December 2015   In her Pulitzer Prize-winning book “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide (2002), Samantha Power—now U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations—reports a remarkable exchange between Roméo Dallaire, force commander of the painfully reduced UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide, and a U.S. military officer.

Darfur: Radio Dabanga News Digest Number 28                                   Dr. Eric Reeves                                 6 November 2015 This twenty-eighth installment of Darfur: Radio Dabanga News Digest focuses on events of the past two weeks, including violence and insecurity in Darfur and the continuing deterioration in humanitarian conditions throughout the region. The digest focuses in particular on

Western Journalism and Sudan: a painful deficit, with growing consequences Dr. Eric Reeves, Sudan Tribune 20 October 2015   Image: Life as a displaced person with nowhere to go (photograph by Human Rights Watch) News organizations rarely worry about balancing their reporting on humanitarian crises around the world; on the contrary, there are gross imbalances driven by the spectacular (natural disasters), proximity to Western countries and Japan,