"Morse takes us along on a two-part journey he made with three young refugees, three "Lost Boys," returning to the homes they fled years ago in the midst of a bitter civil war in southern Sudan. Though this region is largely ignored in the U.S. at the moment, that is unlikely to last for reasons Morse describes in his dramatic first-person account of traveling through the southern part of a Sudan poised at the edge of the abyss." Tom, tomdispatch.com

David Morse, The Myth of "Darfur". CommonDreams.org, February 21, 2007.
". . . Unfortunately, the 'Darfur' that has seized the public imagination is . . . conceived in isolation from the rest of Sudan. The comparative brightness of the spotlight separates Darfur from the larger, darker landscape of Sudan. It blinds us to what is happening in the South, where a pivotal peace agreement signed two years ago threatens to fall apart."

Tomgram: Morse on Bush Administration "Appeasement" in Darfur. Compiled and edited by Tom Engelhardt. Appeasement Driven by Oil: The Bush Administration and Darfur, by David Morse, 2006

Gillian Lusk, "The Sudan & The Darfur"
Covert Action Quarterly, Spring 2005. This offers a tough-minded analysis missing in most U.S. commentators.

Medecins Sans Fronties, "The Crushing Burden of Rape: Sexual Violence in Darfur"
Amsterdam, March 8, 2005. This briefing paper prompted Sudanese authorities to imprison MSF directors in Sudan for "treason." After a month, they were finally released under international pressure."

Tomgram: David Morse on Darfur as a Resource War. Compiled and edited by Tom Engelhardt. War of the Future: Oil Drives the Genocide in Darfur, by David Morse, 2005

Samantha Power, "Dying in Darfur,"
The New Yorker, August 30, 2004. Power's 2002 book, A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (Harper Collins/ Perennial) is available in paperback for $17.95.

Robert I. Rotberg, "Sudan and the war in Darfur" and other writers contribute to the Foreign Policy Association. Good overviews.

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