After the killing has ceased, and order has been restored: How do you make it right again? This is the question addressed in a new film, My Neighbor, My Killer, according to the article about it in the NYT this week.

SLA  (Abdel Wahid)  field commander Ebrahim Abdullah has agreed to take any questions advocates have. You can submit your question using this form.

“Gration Must Go” is the call that has just been put out by some U.S.-based Darfur advocates – including people that, I should disclose, I respect the work of. They are sincere people, genuinely committed to improving the lives of people in Darfur. And yet …

This powerpoint was created by one of the Darfuri refugees I interviewed in Cairo. He asked me to post it on my site so more people could see it.

This report, released this month by the Small Arms Survey, on the people who were recruited as proxy militias by the Sudanese government in Darfur, is well worth the read. Its author is Julie Flint (who wrote Darfur: A Short History of a Long War …

Yesterday, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the ICC issued its decision on the confirmation of charges laid by the Prosecutor against Congelese MLC leader (and former Vice-President), Jean-Pierre Bemba, for crimes committed in the Central African Republic, 2002-2003.

I have been advised that my last vent, caused by having the same message delivered, on the same day, by both SUNA and the “new” NGOs for Darfur, MercyCorps Scotland and CARE (Switzerland), was misguided. Rather than it being a case of the NGOs repeating …

So – I was about to get off the computer, but I just caught sight of these, and they warranted the creation of a new category: “WTF?”

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