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Author: David Sullivan

Bombings in Somalia: The Blowback Continues

Bombings in Somalia: The Blowback Continues
What distinguishes the recent coordinated car-bombings across northern Somalia from the steady stream of bad news to which we have become accustomed coming out of this part of the world? Is this any worse than the civil war, occupation, rendition, targeted assassinations, mass displacement, and epidemic of piracy that have occurred since the United States supported Ethiopia’s intervention in Somalia in December 2006? Unfortunately, it is. The location, targets, and tactics employed in yesterday’s tragedy suggest a dramatic turn for the worse in Somalia. Diplomats, humanitarians, and security professionals must urgently reexamine the policy missteps behind this crisis. Some important ...

Don’t Blame Human Rights Activists for Crimes Against Humanity

This weekend, human rights contrarian David Rieff’s op-ed in the LA Times castigated activists for “human rights triumphalism” after the International Criminal Court’s move to indict Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and argued “it would make more sense to try to restart negotiations in a serious way with Bashir and his government than to indulge in ‘Count of Monte Cristo’-like fantasies of the wicked getting their comeuppance.” Rieff’s timing could not have been worse: the very next day, Serbia captured indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic, the man most responsible for the crimes against humanity in Bosnia that Rieff lambasted western governments ...

Don’t Blame Human Rights Activists for Crimes Against Humanity

Don’t Blame Human Rights Activists for Crimes Against Humanity
Don’t Blame Human Rights Activists for Crimes Against Humanity ...

Defending Mugabe and Bashir: China’s Olympic Dream?

Defending Mugabe and Bashir: China’s Olympic Dream?
The Beijing Olympics may be just around the corner, but the dream among human rights activists that the games might push the Chinese towards being a responsible stakeholder in international affairs has run up against an appalling recent track record in Africa. In Sudan, the BBC recently uncovered evidence of Chinese military support for the Sudanese government in Darfur, a violation of the UN’s arms embargo made all the more egregious by its discovery coinciding with the decision of the Prosecutor of International Criminal Court to charge President Omar al-Bashir for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. On Zimbabwe, ...

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir: The Record Speaks for Itself

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir: The Record Speaks for Itself
With the International Criminal Court's move to charge Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for genocide in Darfur, we here at the ENOUGH project though you might like to be reminded of some of his past comments and behavior ...