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Article: Failure to Protect: International Response to Darfur Genocide.
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- American Diplomacy
- Article date:
- April 29, 2008
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A retired Foreign Service Officer who worked with USAID for 28 years-15 of them in five African countries--this reviewer shares with Professor Reeves and others with an abiding interest in Africa their frustration with the state of the continent's political and cultural affairs. Reeves' accounting of the history of repeated diplomatic attempts to end genocide in Darfur is well known. The meager responses of the UN have yielded only more suffering and death. The Sudanese government pretends that it is above the fray, though it encourages and arms its lackey, the National Islamic Front (NIF), to carry out its dastardly deeds of destruction.
Reeves hits the nail on ...