from sudanreeves.org:Eric Reeves is Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He has spent the past nine years working full-time as a Sudan researcher and analyst, publishing extensively both in the US and internationally. He has testified several times before the Congress, has lectured widely in academic settings, and has served as a consultant to a number of human rights and humanitarian organizations operating in Sudan. Working independently, he has written on all aspects of Sudan's recent history. His book about Darfur ("A Long Day's Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide") was published in May 2007. (Read critical praise for A Long Day's Dying.) He is also at work on a longer-range project surveying the international response to ongoing war and human destruction in Sudan over the past 25 years ("Sudan — Suffering a Long Way Off").
What this bio does not mention is that Professor Reeves has terminal leukemia; he has dedicated his remaining days to documenting the genocide taking place in the Darfur region of Sudan, claimant of the title, First Genocide of the 21st Century. Reeves is a tireless crusader for the voiceless in Darfur; this is the example of a man who should be celebrated as celebrity in this country. I came across Eric Reeves while viewing PBS Frontline's documentary, On Our Watch, which details the chronological massacre of Darfurian citizens set against the almost equally horrifying inaction of the United Nations and world community. This is a powerful and sobering work, an important work, from Frontline.
