World ignoring genocide
in Sudan

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Khartoum's "deliberate obstruction of humanitarian aid offers clear and
unambiguous evidence of an intent to destroy" African tribal groups in Sudan's western region of Darfur, says Eric Reeves, a professor at Smith College in Massachusetts who has devoted himself to researching and speaking out about the northern African nation's ongoing crisis.

The conflict between mainly black rebels in Western Sudan and government-backed Arab militiamen has led to the deaths of thousands and the displacement of as many as 1 million people in what human rights groups are calling "ethnic cleansing."

But Reeves insists the Fur, Massaleit and Zaghawa tribes are among the victims of a wider effort that fits the U.N. definition of genocide, which is to "deliberately
inflict ... conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction in whole or in part."

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Sudan's cleric-backed National Islamic Front regime in the Arab and Muslim north declared a jihad on the south in 1989. Since 1983, an estimated 2 million people have died from war and related famine. About 5 million have become refugees.

A peace accord has been signed with the south, but a continent-wide African church group's evaluation of the situation in Darfur is consistent with Reeves' assessment.

The All Africa Conference of Churches, or AACC, has warned Darfur resembles
Rwanda 10 years ago when up to a million people were slaughtered as the
world looked on, reports Ecumenical News International.

After sending a delegation to the region last month, the group sees a "genocide in the making" in Sudan.

The AACC accused African governments of indifference to the suffering of the
people of Sudan and for supporting the re-election of Sudan to the executive committee of the
U.N. Human Rights Commission.

"The recent unfolding situation truly lends itself to genocide in the
making," AACC General Secretary Rev. Mvume Dandala told reporters after his visit.

"If another tragedy develops in proportion to that of Rwanda," he continued, "this will be an indictment on our generation."

In response to allegations against Khartoum's National Islamic Front government, Vice President Ali Osman Taha accused the international media of deliberately
magnifying the scale of the humanitarian problem in the region, Agence
France-Presse reported Wednesday. He also claimed the conflict was fabricated by the West.

But international officials say, Reeves points out, Khartoum's military and Arab militia allies "have forced hundreds of thousands of people from these African tribal groups into concentration camps -- the majority without humanitarian access -- where there are continuous executions, and where extermination grows directly out of living conditions deliberately made intolerable."

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Dandala described some camps for black refugees and displaced
persons 12 miles from Khartoum as "hell on earth," ENI reported.

Thousands of people, including children and the elderly, he reported, were languishing
in temperatures of up to 115 degrees.

"We are concerned at what seems to be a sense of indifference in our
continent towards the tragedy of the people of Sudan," Dandala said.

The tribes of Darfur make up the overwhelming majority of the 2.2 million people now defined as "war-affected" by the U.N., the U.S. and the European Union, Reeves says.

Reeves, pointing out the Bush administration now has committed itself to a legal determination of whether Khartoum and its allies are committing genocide, contends the denial and obstruction of aid because of the racial and ethnic character of the populations "most acutely in need of humanitarian aid, is clear evidence of genocidal intent."

He says the U.S., Human Rights Watch, the International Crisis Group and many other authoritative sources already are using the term "ethnic cleansing" to describe the situation in Darfur.

This week, officials have issued a flurry of condemnations of Khartoum's obstructionism, though without apparent effect, Reeves said.

For example, Deputy U.S. Ambassador James Cunningham complained to the U.N. Security Council Monday the Khartoum government "continues to deny release of vehicles needed by humanitarian relief agencies."

"It has also in some cases denied release of radio equipment needed for workers to securely deploy to remote areas to deliver aid," he said. "In addition, the government has also delayed food shipments from Port of Sudan, potentially to the point of making the food useless."

U.N. humanitarian chief Jan Egeland also criticized the Sudanese government
Monday for blocking aid workers, food and equipment from reaching the
Darfur region.

But Reeves points to Egeland as an example of the unwillingness of officials to fully recognize the gravity of the situation.

"The conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan is the worst in the
world today and a result of 'ethnic cleansing,'" Egeland told the AP Tuesday. "I think
it's not genocide yet, and we can prevent it from becoming one."

"But what can this possibly mean?" Reeves asks. "... How many hundreds of thousands, killed or destined to be
killed from deliberate actions, are required for a finding of genocide? Are 2.2 million "war-affected" people not enough ... ?"

Amnesty International has predicted 350,000 are "most likely to die" during the upcoming rainy season. The French group Doctors Without Borders has declared "the whole population [of Darfur] is teetering on the verge of mass starvation."

The U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID, offers this grim assessment:

"We estimate right now if we get relief in, we'll lose a third of a million people, and if we don't the death rates could be dramatically higher, approaching a million people," said USAID chief Andrew Natsios after a high-level U.N. meeting in Geneva this month.

Reeves opines: "To be sure, skepticism about genocide can always be contrived on a temporary basis -- especially, in the case of Darfur, by those whose inaction has done so much to allow a ghastly slide into the present abysm of suffering and destruction. But the truth will out, and the clarity that some now profess to be beyond them will be brought home with searing force.

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