May 30, 2008 Sudan: Abyei Aflame
"The town of Abyei has ceased to exist. Brigade 31 of the Sudanese
Armed Forces, or SAF, has displaced the entire civilian population
and burned Abyei's market and housing to the ground. These events
were predicted, and absent effective word and action, they became
inevitable. [but] as this report goes to the press, the United
States has not even made a public statement regarding the violence
Khartoum instigated in Abyei." - Roger Winter
Feb. 13, 2008 Chad: Civilians at Risk, Outside Roles at Issue
"The Chadian civil war is often described as a "spillover" from
Darfur. That is a simplification. Darfur's war actually began as a
spillover from Chad more than twenty years ago and the two
conflicts have been entangled ever since." - Alex De Waal
Apr 22, 2007 Sudan: International Media Ignore Sudanese Voices
The janjaweed militiamen are used "by a racist regime that is in
many respects worse than the apartheid regime in South Africa,
which at least had the dignity not to employ rape as a tactic of
suppression." Did this scathing remark appear in the New York Times
or Le Nouvel Observateur, two newspapers known for criticising the
Sudanese government? No, surprising as it may seem, it was made in
an editorial in the Citizen, a Khartoum daily, on 18 March. And
there was no angry reaction from the government. - Reporters
without Borders
