Requiem For The Sudan: War, Drought, And Disaster Relief On The Nile / Edition 1

by J. Millard Burr, Robert O Collins, J Millard Burr

Overview

After a decade of uneasy peace, the historic conflict between the Northern Sudanese, who identify with their Middle Eastern neighbors, and the Southern Sudanese, who are of African heritage, erupted into violent conflict in 1983. This ferocious civil war, with its Arab militias and widespread use of automatic weapons, has devastated the populace. Nature has added to the miseries of war, bringing drought and famine to the already battered victims of violence. Although this regional calamity remains largely unknown to the outside world, the death toll among the Southern Sudanese far exceeds that in both Somalia or Bosnia. Over a million people have either perished or been displaced.This chilling account of the ravages of drought and civil war is based on a wealth of documents—never made public—from Sudanese government sources, private and foreign governmental aid agencies, research groups, international media, and other organizations involved in famine relief efforts. The authors graphically recount how the attempts of the international agencies and humanitarian organzations to provide food and medical relief have been thwarted by bureaucratic infighting, corruption, greed, and ineptitude.This rich narrative illustrates with great clarity the convoluted relationship that relief agencies had with the Sudanese government as they tried to negotiate the means of survival for the area's desperate population. It is a sad tale of the tragic human consequences of the failure of conflict resolution, of organizational mismanagement, and of a government hostile toward its own people.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813321219
Publisher:	Westview Press
Publication date:	11/16/1994
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1590L (what's this?)

About the Author

J. Millard Burr

Table of Contents

Preface — Introduction — The Death of a Dream — The Politics of Food — Battering the Dispossessed — Starvation in the South — The International Response — Operation Lifeline Sudan — The Return of the Military — The Junta Is Challenged — Escalating the War and Reducing Relief — Conclusion: A Decade of Despair

Editorial Reviews

The gruesome tale of how civil war descended onto a people weakened by drought and famine, and how over a million people have either died or been displaced since 1983 while relief efforts continue to be thwarted by bureaucratic infighting, corruption, greed, and ineptitude. Drawn from previously unreleased documents from the Sudanese government, famine relief agencies, and the international media. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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