ABSTRACT

Amnesty International recently reported new evidence of continuing genocide in the Jebel Marra area of Darfur, where 171 villages were attacked in the first eight months of 2016, with further evidence of the use of chemical weapons. Hillary Clinton's vote supporting the Bush Administration's invasion and occupation of Iraq is well remembered, but her very public 2008 promise to "unstintingly" and "resolutely" join in holding the Sudanese government accountable for its crimes of genocide in Darfur is all but forgotten. Hillary Clinton's combined record on the Iraq war and the Darfur genocide were connected. The crimes that unfolded in Darfur - contemporaneously with the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq - involved genocide on a grand scale. The violence that exploded in the spring and summer of 2003 was massive. Hillary Clinton did not just get Iraq wrong; she and Barack Obama ignored their promise to hold Sudan's leadership accountable for the genocidal killing in Darfur.