Will anyone stop the ethnic cleansing in Sudan?

AuthorKristof, Nicholas D.
PositionPerspectives - Brief Article

The most vicious ethnic cleansing you've never heard of is unfolding in the Sahara. It's a campaign of murder, rape, and pillage by Sudan's Arab rulers that has forced 700,000 black Sudanese to flee. The culprit is the Sudanese government. Its Arab leaders have been fighting a civil war for more than 20 years against its rebellious black south. Lately it has armed Arab raiders who are killing or driving out blacks near the border with Chad. The UN's Sudan coordinator described the situation as similar in character, if not scale, to the Rwanda genocide of...

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