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Let’s Talk About the Genocide in Sudan

And its deafening silence

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I am a product of the masses of my country. I am the product of my enemy.
~ Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela (aka Winnie Mandela)

Back in mid-June 2024, I proposed an article to a feminist digital publication (outside of Medium). The editor and I went back and forth on a few items — she wanted me to beef up the story.

At the time, I was also going through a difficult time economically, so I set the story aside. I could’ve easily self-published. I take responsibility for my lack of follow-up.

This brings me to the question: why the silence on Sudan’s genocide?

But First, The Numbers

On 29 June 2023, the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) published an open letter warning of the Genocide in Darfur, Sudan. Signed by 94 persons/parties including survivors, human rights experts, and the Sudanese diaspora, it starts —

We, the undersigned Darfuri survivors, members of the Sudanese diaspora, atrocities prevention experts, humanitarian aid professionals, academics, and advocates write this open letter as a warning and call to action. Twenty years ago, the world failed to prevent genocide in Darfur and…