And on, and on, and on...

Eric Reeves, who has written extensively on the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, has written an article for The New Republic which describes the latest turn in the tortured history of the genocide taking place in Sudan.

Here's an excerpt:

But the Sudanese regime refused to allow the peacekeepers into the country, and the United Nations declined to intervene without Khartoum's approval.

That approval seemed to come on Tuesday (June 12, 2007), as the Khartoum regime agreed to allow a joint peacekeeping force comprising U.N. troops and African Union forces into Darfur. Noureddine Mezni, a spokesman for the African Union, called the announcement "a breakthrough moment." By now, however, there is a long history of such breakthroughs on Darfur--each of which has proved worthless.