screen_shot_2013-03-11_at_12_152_100.pngIn London this Thursday, the whistleblower who first brought the region to global attention will publish his memoirs, ‘Against A Tide of Evil’; a no-holds-barred insider account of a crisis that still keeps rolling.

“We knew from day one what was going on,” Kapila says in a short film introducing the book. “Hardly a day would go by without an e-mail report being sent to

[UN Headquarters in] New York detailing the latest incident – including time, place, and very often we even knew which army unit was responsible. The reaction from New York – there was no reaction. It is as if the reports disappeared into a black hole.”

Now the Aegis Trust’s Special Representative on Crimes Against Humanity, this year Kapila revisited the Darfur frontier and travelled 1000km through Sudan’s forgotten war zones in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile State. Hundreds of thousands of people in the two areas, bombed out of their villages and farms, have been cut off from international humanitarian relief since the outbreak of hostilities between the Sudanese Government and opposition groups in June 2011.

“Omar Bashir – the only sitting head of state in the World wanted by the ICC for genocide – is using the same tactics of systematic ethnic cleansing in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile that I witnessed in Darfur ten years ago,” says Kapila. “The suffering of people with no access to aid has reached desperate levels, and the international community’s failure to ensure relief is completing the work started by Sudanese Government bombs and bullets. Meanwhile, doing business as usual with the regime in Khartoum sends a clear signal that whatever western politicians might say to the contrary in the media, this criminal cabal remains free to carry on killing its own people.”

“Kapila’s memoir isn’t just a gripping read; it’s a shocking wake-up call that should move every reader to action,” says Dr James Smith, Chief Executive of the Aegis Trust, who accompanied the former UN Sudan Chief into the Nuba Mountains last year. “He lays bare the crimes against humanity committed by a repeat offender towards whom the rest of the World continues to turn a blind eye. It’s time for all of us to act to change that.”

Mukesh Kapila is now leading the Aegis Trust’s campaign for a global parliamentary network to hold decision-makers to account for their actions on mass atrocities. “Not a single diplomat has been brought to account for the failure to act; in fact, many of them were promoted,” he says of the original response to the Darfur crisis. “When those who are in charge of institutions charged with the responsibility to prevent and protect fail in that duty and there is no accountability for it, then Darfur will happen again and again and again.”

‘Against A Tide of Evil’ is available from all good bookshops, but 50% of every copy sold through the Aegis Trust goes to genocide prevention (click here to order).

For more background information on the book, readers can also visit www.againstatideofevil.org.

The book launch will take place on Thursday evening at the Royal Commonwealth Society in London. If you would like to attend, email events@aegistrust.orgThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for details.