There is no better example of misguided humanitarianism than Sudan. For more than a decade, Operation Lifeline Sudan has been catering a war there, causing more deaths than they've been able to prevent.

Why do they keep doing it?


 

photo by Rich Addicks Sudan: The Faces of Famine: Over and over, the pornography of African suffering simply rewards the oppressors by Michael Maren. From Newsweek, July 27, 1998. How Relief Aid to Sudan perpetuates war and starvation by Raymond Bonner. From the New York Times, October 11, 1998. The Big Business of Famine Relief in Sudan. Through misguided moral outrage, the war in Sudan is being prolonged. by Kevin Toolis, from The Guardian. Some International Relief Groups Finally Decide to Pull out of Sudan: From The Washington Post, 29 February, 2000 In a war, even food aid can kill by Jane Perlez, in The New York Times, 5 December, 1999 Food as a Weapon by Michael Maren, in The New York Times, 2 December, 1999 Human Rights Watch, in a 10 December 1999 letter to U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright, urges the U.S. not to aid SPLA rebels. Sudan: The Horror Continues A Special Report from the dying fields of Sudan. Are aid groups inadvertantly prolonging the nightmare? And....have relief groups finally wised up? After years of dumping food into conflicts around the world, CARE says it has decided to treat the crisis in Sudan as the  political problem it is.