Sunday, May 22, 2011

400,000 
People  Killed
The conflict in Darfur has been going on for six years now!  Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed! But who knows about it?
“burning of villages, the bombing of schools and the systematic rape of women and girls,” (New York Times)
If the US or UN does not take action Darfur will most likely end up like the tragedy in Rwanda.  Rwanda’s genocide took 800,000 and Darfur is half way there.



Thursday, May 19, 2011

Crisis in Abyei


The Unresolved Crisis in Abyei

On 7 February Sudanese president Omar al Bashir announced that South Sudan had overwhelmingly voted for secession from the North. A committee is now negotiating post-referendum arrangements, including the contentious issues of oil revenue, border demarcation, and the future status of Abyei. 

Armed Groups


Armed Groups

In one form or another, armed groups have been a feature of the Sudanese landscape since before the nation's independence in 1956. Since the 1990s, however, armed groups—particularly opposition groups but also pro-government militias—have played a central role in the historical development of Sudan. Today, they remain a nexus of armed violence against the state and local communities.

Arms Holdings

Estimating the numbers of weapons held by Sudanese state forces, armed groups, and civilians is extremely challenging. The proliferation of arms throughout Sudanese society is a primary legacy of almost four decades of civil war as part of which all sides received arms from outside parties and redistribution to allied forces and civilians was a widely used tactic. The capture and recapture of arms through theft and military engagements has fed the diffusion of weapons, as has the small-scale private 'ant trade' across Sudan's largely unmonitored borders.

Save Darfur Committee


The Executive Committee of SAVE DARFUR