"These guys never, ever open up," says John Prendergast, a founder of the Enough Project, a nonprofit anti-genocide group.
"For about 12 years now, Kabila has been kind of failing the Congolese Army," said Fidel Bafilemba, a field researcher in Congo with the Enough Project, a nonprofit anti-genocide group.
Despite Khartoum's demands that Unamid should leave, Omer Ismail of the Enough Project, a Washington-based anti-genocide group, said he thinks the Sudanese government does not really want a complete withdrawal.
James Smith, chief executive of the Aegis Trust, a British anti-genocide group working in the region, said villagers in Muhagiriya "confirmed to us that government and janjaweed forces deliberately attacked unarmed civilians," referring to the Arab militias that are aligned with the government.
Kaba is one of the co-founders of We Charge Genocide, a group that sent Chicago youths to Switzerland in 2014 to present a report to the UN Committee Against Torture on police violence against black Americans.
"Even though the crisis in Darfur is grave, with unacceptable levels of deaths, human suffering and destruction of homes and infrastructure, the situation cannot be described as a genocide," the group of African states said.
But so is the system Mandela's revolution brought about – one in which anti-white racism is so strong today that a prominent genocide watchdog group has labeled the current situation a "precursor" to the deliberate, systematic elimination of the race.
John Prendergast, co-founder of the Enough Project, a leading anti-genocide pressure group based in Washington, dismissed Bashir's justification of his policy in Darfur.
This hefty burden of proof, coupled with high costs, chills debate and hampers investigation into everything from consumer affairs to genocide.Pressure groups dealing with issues such as war crimes are campaigning for reform.
Nevertheless, Secretary of State John Kerry last week used the term for the first time regarding the Islamic State, declaring that it "is responsible for genocide against groups" including religious minorities.
John Prendergast, co-founder of the Enough Project, an anti-genocide advocacy group and an expert on issues in Darfur, Rwanda and Congo, addresses Ibrahim's contention that the West is preternaturally obsessed with African carnage: "He's right," Prendergast says.
