Click Here For Sudan: Justice Africa Analysis

"In response to the question 'Is the Darfur conflict genocide?' Justice Africa replies, 'If we strictly apply the provisions of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, there is no doubt that the answer is yes.' However, this establishes a firm international obligation to act, which is why governments and the United Nations are wary of using the term. Such action, Justice Africa implies, must lead to changes in Khartoum. 'The ruthlessness with which the security elite at the heart of the Government of Sudan have operated, and their readiness to turn Darfur into an ethics-free zone, mean that Sudan's future stability rests on the political exclusion or containment of key members of this security elite.' "