Free Republic

This paper was authored by Yuri Mantilla and Bill Saunders.   For more than ten years, the government of Sudan has waged war against its own citizens resulting in the greatest humanitarian and human rights catastrophe in the world. The war has claimed more than 2 million lives[1] and displaced an additional 4 million.[2] While all sides in Sudan's civil war have committed human rights abuses, the forces of the Sudanese government--which scholar Paul Marshall calls "the worst practitioner of religious persecution and the worst violator of human rights in the world"[3]--bear the largest share of responsibility. As Macram Max...