Killing has been non-stop

The ceasefire in Gaza, however shaky, is freeing up some bandwidth for the world’s media to fret about other ongoing massacres, and UN Secretary General António Guterres wasted no time in turning the spotlight on Sudan. “The horrifying crisis in Sudan … is spiraling out of control,” he said on Monday (Nov. 3) – but he didn’t explain why.

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The biggest city in western Sudan, El Fasher, swollen to half a million or more by minority ethnic groups fleeing genocide, fell to rebel forces at the end of October after a two-year siege. The killing has been non-stop since then. It’s the worst massacre yet in a civil war that has already killed 150,000 people and made one-third of the population refugees.

Sudan has never really had a government worthy of respect. Only two years after it got independence in 1956 it had its first military coup, and in 1962 the mainly Christian population in the south began a long rebellion against the ruling Muslim elite in the north.

Half a dozen military coups and several civil wars later a much smaller Sudan (having finally let South Sudan secede and toppled a brutal thirty-year dictatorship)........

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