19 Jun 2012 – As head of the UN in Sudan in 2004, Dr Mukesh Kapila blew the whistle on the Darfur crisis – making it a global news story overnight – when he stated in broadcast media that the Sudanese Government was committing systematic ethnic cleansing in the region. Now Special Representative on Crimes Against [...]
5 June 2012 - Nuba 2012: Return to Genocide? is a short film released today by the Aegis Trust on the first anniversary of a massacre by Sudanese Government forces in Kadugli, capital of South Kordofan State, which marked the start of the new wave of ethnic cleansing against the Nuba. Featuring Dr Mukesh Kapila on [...]
30 May 2012 - Even as the UN peacekeeping mission in Abyei confirms withdrawal of Sudanese troops from this disputed region, fears for the survival of civilians under Government attack in Sudan's South Kordofan and Blue Nile are growing. Dr Mukesh Kapila, Special Representative of the Aegis Trust and former head of the UN in [...]
24 May 2012 - International agencies last week raised the alarm that conditions for refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) in Sudan and South Sudan – already inadequate – are about to get far worse with the onset of the rainy season. For refugees in South Sudan, there remains at least the possibility of international [...]
9 May 2012 - Figures released by the UK Home Office following a Freedom Of Information request from the Yorkshire Post (see YP article here, quoting Michael McCann MP – Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Genocide Prevention) indicate large numbers of war crimes suspects continue to reside in the UK. It is [...]
Full text of the Valedictory Address by Dr Mukesh Kapila, Special Representative of the Aegis Trust and Professor of Global Health and Humanitarian Affairs at the University of Manchester, UK at the Fourth International Roundtable Conference at the Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai, India, “Structuring Peace: the State and Conflict Transformation: prospects and challenges [...]
23 April 2012 - The Aegis Trust warmly welcomes the US President's announcement of the creation of an Atrocities Prevention Board, and a comprehensive strategy for the United States to make prevention of mass atrocities and genocide a key focus of US foreign policy. For analysis of this hugely significant move, see (among others): Madelaine [...]
29 March 2012 – As UN Force Commander in Rwanda, 1994, Canadian Senator Romeo Dallaire displayed extraordinary courage in protecting thousands of civilians during the genocide, but failed in his repeated attempts to persuade the UN to give his mission the mandate and reinforcements it needed to stop the slaughter. Today, just ahead of events [...]
29 March 2012 - "The current upsurge in fighting along the disputed Sudan/South Sudan border is just a symptom of the serious and deep-rooted underlying malaise,” Dr Mukesh Kapila commented in a statement issued today. Aegis Special Representative on Crimes Against Humanity, Dr Kapila was UN Resident Coordinator in Sudan from 2003 to 2004. “The [...]
16 Jan 2012 - Dr Mukesh Kapila, Special Advisor to the Aegis Trust and former UN Resident Coordinator in Sudan, was blocked from visiting refugee camps in eastern Chad last week and then expelled by the Chadian authorities before he could get the chance to meet even one of the nearly 300,000 Darfuri refugees still [...]