Confronting Genocide in Darfur, Sudan
Since 2003, Darfur, Sudan, has been the site of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, as government-backed militias have killed tens of thousands of civilians and displaced more than a million people. Both Sen. Kerry and President Bush declared the slaughter a “genocide” last fall, but this prompted little action from the U.S. government — or anyone else. What’s the reality there today? And what can be done about it?
Author, activist and former Washington insider John Prendergast, now a special advisor to the president of the Brussells-based International Crisis Group, served in the Clinton administration from 1996-2001 and has worked for a variety of NGOs and think tanks in Africa and the U.S. The author or co-author of seven books, he has focused most of his 20-year career on conflict resolution, human rights promotion and humanitarian action. He was recently in Darfur to assess the crisis there.