Famine in Sudan, 1998 : the human rights causes.
"Famines in Sudan put about 2.6 million out of 27 million people at risk of starvation in 1998, during the fifteenth year of the civil war. These famines were caused by human rights abuses by all parties to the conflict. Government militias and army forces conducted scorched earth campaigns aga...
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New York, N.Y. :
Human Rights Watch,
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Table of Contents:
- I. Summary and recommendations
- II. Introduction
- III. The 1998 famine in Bahr El Ghazal
- IV. Famine and relief in Wau and Bahr El Ghazal
- V. The parties to the fighting in January 1998 in Wau
- VI. Politics in Wau and government-controlled southern Sudan
- VII. The Kerubino/Spla attack on Wau and its immediate aftermath
- VIII. The next phase of the Bahr El Ghazal famine
- IX. Further human rights abuses prolong and deepen the famine
- X. Political complications boding ill for future relief
- XI. Famine in government-controlled western Upper Nile
- XII. Human rights abuses in government-controlled areas
- XIII. The spread of famine in the Nuba mountains
- XIV. Solutions: a case for aid cuttoff?
- Appendix A: The ranking of the complex set of factors contributing to the 1998 famine
- B: The ethnic groups of Wau
- C: The 1988 famine
- D: OLS geared up and government permitted additional aircraft in 1998 famine
- E: Elected governors of ten southern states
- F: Letter from Dr. Riek Machar to President Omar Hassan Ahmed El Bashir
- G: Rules of war.