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Crisis in Darfur Sudan: Peace, but at What Price? Testimony by Julie Flint before U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, June 15, 2004 Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and Senators, for the opportunity to testify at this hearing. I spent 25 days in Darfur, and among refugees from Darfur, in March and April and welcome the chance to tell you what I found there. I am an independent journalist and conducted this research on behalf of Human Rights Watch. The results of the research are available in the report, “Darfur Destroyed: Ethnic Cleansing by Government and Militia Forces in Western Sudan,” recently published. June 15, 2004 Testimony Printer friendly version Sudan: Words Are Not Enough By Georgette Gagnon and Brenda Dinnick. First published in The Globe and Mail, June 11, 2004 In an article for Toronto's Globe and Mail, Georgette Gagnon, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Africa division, and Brenda Dinnick, co-chair of the Toronto committee of Human Rights Watch, call for a tougher international response to the crisis in Darfur. June 11, 2004 Commentary Printer friendly version Lay Down the Law to the Killers of Khartoum By Kenneth Roth, published in The International Herald Tribune, June 3, 2004. When foreign ministers from major countries meet in Geneva on Thursday, June 3, to address the horror in Darfur, they must demand in no uncertain language that Sudan's government stop the ethnic cleansing there. June 4, 2004 Commentary Printer friendly version Sudan: Darfur Needs Action on Human Rights Donor Governments Must Do More Than Provide Aid Donor governments meeting in Geneva today should address the human rights crisis in Sudan as well as the humanitarian crisis, Human Rights Watch said today. June 3, 2004 Press Release Also available in 
Printer friendly version Sudan: Peace Accord in South, But Atrocities in Darfur The Sudanese government’s signing today of a peace agreement to end the 21-year civil war in the south must not deflect criticism of its ongoing campaign of “ethnic cleansing” in the western region of Darfur May 26, 2004 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version SOS Sudan By Carroll Bogert, The Wall Street Journal, May 26, 2004. Over the last year, the Sudanese government has been applying the same brutal tactics it has long used in the south against Muslims in the western region of Darfur, deploying ethnic militias to torch villages across huge swathes of territory and then denying humanitarian aid to displaced civilians. May 26, 2004 Commentary Printer friendly version Addressing crimes against humanity and “ethnic cleansing” in Darfur, Sudan A briefing paper to the U.N. Security Council May 24, 2004 Background Briefing Download PDF Printer friendly version Sudan: Government Commits ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ in Darfur The Sudanese government is responsible for “ethnic cleansing” and crimes against humanity in the western region of Darfur, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. The U.N. Security Council, scheduled today to be briefed on Darfur, should take measures to reverse this ethnic cleansing by creating conditions for the safe return of more than one million people already displaced. May 7, 2004 Press Release Also available in 
Printer friendly version Q & A: Crisis in Darfur (for the latest information: Crisis in Darfur) In early 2003, an armed conflict started between an alliance of the Sudanese government forces and ethnic Arab militia and two non-Arab African rebel groups called the Sudanese Liberation Army/Movement (SLA/SLM) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). Instead of fighting the rebels, the government forces have waged a systematic campaign against unarmed civilians belonging to the same ethnic groups as the rebel groups – mainly the Fur, Masaalit and Zaghawa. May 5, 2004 Special Focus Printer friendly version U.N. Must Quickly Focus on Darfur The United Nations Security Council should not focus exclusively on the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Darfur, western Sudan, but also on the human rights emergency that is its cause, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to Security Council members released today. April 29, 2004 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Security Council: Request Briefing on Human Rights Crisis Letter to Security Council members concerning the situtation in Darfur, western Sudan Human Rights Watch urges the Security Council, in addition to addressing the Darfur conflict's humanitarian dimension, focus on its human rights abuses, including by taking advantage of the findings of a United Nations human rights investigative mission as soon as it returns from the region. April 28, 2004 Letter Printer friendly version Another Africa Calamity -- Will Media Slumber On? By Carroll Bogert Published in Los Angeles Times The international media don't send reporters to cover genocides, it seems. They cover genocide anniversaries. April 28, 2004 Commentary Printer friendly version Sudan's Silent Scream By Minky Worden Published in The New York Sun Just when Sudan's bloody, yearlong campaign of ethnic cleansing in the Darfur region was exposed, the United Nations' top human rights body was convening its annual session in Geneva. April 28, 2004 Commentary Printer friendly version Sudan: Government and Militias Conspire in Darfur Killings Major Massacre Shows State Complicity In a joint operation in the Darfur region of Sudan, government troops working with Arab militias detained 136 African men whom the militias massacred hours later, Human Rights Watch said today. April 23, 2004 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version U.N.: Release Darfur Findings Before Sudan Vote A U.N. fact-finding mission’s new report on gross human rights abuses in Darfur must be made public before the U.N. Commission on Human Rights votes Thursday on a key resolution on Sudan, Human Rights Watch said today. April 21, 2004 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version U.N.: Darfur Poses Critical Test for Rights Body U.N. Commission on Human Rights Must Condemn Abuses, Reinstate Monitor in Sudan The U.N. Commission on Human Rights must reinstate human rights monitoring in Sudan and strongly condemn abuses in Darfur, a western region of Sudan, where one of the world’s worst human rights and humanitarian crises is unfolding, Human Rights Watch said today. April 20, 2004 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Sudan: Monitor Darfur Ceasefire Security, Humanitarian Aid, Civilian Protection Urgently Needed The ceasefire in Darfur, western Sudan, is a welcome first step but requires immediate and rigorous international monitoring to avert a humanitarian disaster and continued civilian displacement, Human Rights Watch said today. April 14, 2004 Press Release Printer friendly version Sudan: Massive Atrocities in Darfur Almost One Million Civilians Forcibly Displaced in Government’s Scorched-Earth Campaign The Sudanese government is complicit in crimes against humanity committed by government-backed militias in Darfur, Human Rights Watch said today in a new report. In a scorched-earth campaign, government forces and Arab militias are killing, raping and looting African civilians that share the same ethnicities as rebel forces in this western region of Sudan. April 2, 2004 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Darfur in Flames Atrocities in Western Sudan This 49-page report describes a government strategy of forced displacement targeting civilians of the non-Arab ethnic communities from which the two main rebel groups—the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)—are mainly drawn. Human Rights Watch found that the military is indiscriminately bombing civilians, while both government forces and militias are systematically destroying villages and conducting brutal raids against the Fur, Masaalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups. April 2, 2004 Report Download PDF, 408 KB, 49 pgs Purchase online Sudan: Rights Defenders in Darfur Detained The Sudanese government has arbitrarily detained two human rights activists, apparently for their work in the war-torn region of Darfur in western Sudan, Human Rights Watch said today. Both are feared to be at risk of inhumane treatment, miscarriage of justice and possible execution. March 9, 2004 Press Release Printer friendly version
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