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“They Bombed Everything that Moved” Aerial military attacks on civilians and humanitarians in Sudan, 1999 – 2011 Research and Analysis by Eric Reeves May 2011 This report grows out of my belief that the almost complete anonymity and invisibility of Sudanese civilian victims of targeted aerial military assaults is morally intolerable. So, too, are such attacks on humanitarian aid workers and operations, including hospitals and feeding centers. There have been many casualties among relief personnel. For more than twelve years, these assaults have been standard counter-insurgency strategy on the part of the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime in Khartoum. As I argue and as the facts demonstrate, such a strategy—obscenely destructive in its consequences—has no historical precedent anywhere in the world. It would be presumptuous to dedicate such a document to so many thousands of victims; it must stand simply in memoriam. ER – May 2011 Eric Reeves has worked for the past twelve years as a Sudan researcher, analyst, and advocate, publishing extensively nationally and internationally. He is author of A Long Day’s Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide (2007). He has testified before the U.S. Congress and briefed both Congressional staffers and a number of international nongovernmental organizations working in Sudan. He comments regularly for the BBC, Radio France International, and other broadcast news organizations. Cover image: village in Darfur destroyed during aerial and ground attack by Khartoum’s Sudan Armed Forces and militia allies (2006) (Photograph by Mia Farrow, used with permission) Contents Executive summary – page 4 Acknowledgments – page 5 List of abbreviations – page 6 I. Analytic introduction – page 7 II. Schematic history, organized by year – page 22 III. Explanation of methodology and data – page 42 Bibliography, including maps and n