This was a dream come true for human rights advocates accustomed to political irrelevance: a genocide in faraway Darfur became a major issue in domestic politics. The Darfur lobby was born, as Rebecca ...

But there was an important distinction to be made in this case. After threatening Sudan with sanctions and dispatching Secretary of State Colin Powell to the Darfur region in late June to assess the ...

Darfur, a region in western Sudan, has a tragic history marked by ethnic violence and humanitarian crises. In the early 2000s, the region experienced a brutal conflict that resulted in the deaths ...

And, until 2003, Darfur was relatively peaceful. BY CONTRAST, the genocide in Rwanda was presaged by a history of attempts by Hutus and Tutsis to slaughter each other.

They shot and killed the 8-year-old boy. He was trying to run away, and they shot him in the head. “June 15 was one of the worst days in all of Darfur’s history.” Reviving a genocidal playbook ...

Foreign Affairs UN sounds alarm on Darfur, warns world not to repeat history At least 800 people were killed within 72 hours this week as part of the ethnic cleansing of minorities conducted by ...

Reports indicate that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacked the North Darfur capital of El Fasher, bombarding residential areas and camps for displaced people as warnings of famine and ...

None of this, I should emphasize, is meant to disparage the work of the extraordinary Darfur coalition. Nor do I mean to deny that "history will judge us," for surely it will.