Why can’t we use diplomatic negotiation to get the Sudanese government to stop what it is doing?

Why can’t we use diplomatic negotiation to get the Sudanese government to stop what it is doing?

15 -10- 2006 Negotiation has been tried for a long time now. More than two and a half years of formal talks between the international community and the government of Sudan have never successfully mitigated the violence in the Darfur region. What’s more, the government has openly broken ceasefire after ceasefire and promise after promise. In May 2006, according to the terms of the Darfur Peace Agreement, the Sudanese government committed to disarming its Janjaweed militias, intimating that it was planning on stopping its systematic campaign against Darfur’s civilians. But instead it has drastically increased its military operations in the region, in full view of on-the-ground humanitarian groups, human rights experts, and journalists. So, rather than fail to respond to diplomatic pressure, more exactly the government has used previous diplomatic agreements as a way to make time and space for its human rights abuses.


Alrabae Adam Ezaldeen
Supervisor of foreign Affairs & General Secretary of Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM/A-A)
In United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland’s Chapter