Totten Providing Information on Latest Killings in Sudan

Samuel Totten, University of Arkansas professor of secondary education, is taking a lead in informing the media across the globe about the day-to-day events unfolding on the ground in the Nuba Mountains in Sudan, where the government has carried out air and ground attacks over the past four weeks.

Totten has also been communicating with human rights organizations in the United States and beyond and with various governmental figures. Having conducted research in the Nuba Mountains this past January and previously, he has contact with people on the ground who are feeding him daily reports about the situation. Totten said he has been told of attacks by MIGs and Antonov bombers, door-to-door searches for suspected members and supporters of the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement who are executed on the spot, and rumors of mass graves.

Totten has written several pieces about the bloodshed and been quoted in others, including work by Nicholas Kristof, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, and by the Nairobi bureau chief for the Associated Press.

Some of the pieces:

• Yet Again in Sudan by Kristof
• Is Omar Hassan al-Bashir Up to Genocide Again by Totten in the New York Times
• Fear Pervades Nuba Mountains that Sudan Government Intent on Genocide by Totten in The Armenian Weekly
• What Will it Take to Halt South Kordofan Atrocities by Totten in Sudan Tribune
• U.N. Says Sudan's Army Continues Attacking Civilians by The Associated Press

The Associated Press piece has been published by numerous media outlets including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Kansas City Star, Seattle Post Intelligencer, the Sun-Star in the Philippines and Forbes magazine.

Totten has written extensively about genocide. His most recent book is An Oral and Documentary History of the Darfur Genocide published last year by Praeger Security International. He was also interviewed by KUAF, the National Public Radio affiliate at the University of Arkansas, for a report that aired this week and can be heard online.

Another recent radio interview can be heard at the Radio Curious website.