1st Edition

Genocide by Attrition The Nuba Mountains of Sudan

By Samuel Totten Copyright 2012
    246 Pages
    by Routledge

    156 Pages
    by Routledge

    This volume documents the Sudanese government's campaign of genocidal attacks and forced starvation against the people of the Nuba Mountains in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Genocide by Attrition provides powerful insights and analysis of the phenomenon and bears witness to ongoing atrocities.

    This second edition features more interviews, a new introduction, and a revised and more detailed historical overview. Among the themes that link most of the interviews are: the political and economic disenfranchisement of the Nuba people by the government of Sudan; the destruction of villages and farms and the murder and deaths of the Nuba people; the forced relocation into so-called "peace camps" and the impact of forced starvation. The book also documents the frustration of the Nuba people at being left out of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed between the South and the North in 2005, President Omar al Bashir's threats against the Nuba people, and the crisis in the Nuba Mountains since June 2011.

    Genocide by Attrition provides a solid sense of the antecedents to the genocidal actions in the Nuba Mountains. It introduces the main actors, describes how the Nuba were forced into starvation by their government, and tells how those who managed to survive did so. Samuel Totten provides a valuable resource to study the imposition of starvation as a tool of genocide.

    Introduction

    List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

    Chronology: Sudan/Nuba Mountains/Blue Nile

    Maps

    Historical Overview

    Interviews

    Afterword

    Appendices

    Appendix I Convention on the Prevention and
    Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

    Appendix II Crimes against Humanity

    Appendix III Working Document II: Quantifying Genocide
    in Southern Sudan and the Nuba Mountains,
    1983–1998 by Millard Burr

    Appendix IV Annotated Bibliography

    Glossary

    Index

    Biography

    Samuel Totten