OPENING THIS WEEK CHILES THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK In this documentary, former U.S. Marine Capt. Brian Steidle encounters atrocities as an unarmed African Union monitor of a civil-war cease-fire in Darfur, Sudan. Although the Sudanese government publicly decries violence, Steidle witnessed government-sponsored Janjaweed militia violating the cease-fire -- as well as every code of human conduct. After six months, Steidle, horrified and frustrated by the lack of response to his reports, returns to the U.S. and ultimately takes his photographs to Congress, the United Nations, and the International Criminal Court. This is not a film for the fainthearted -- it includes many images of dead, mutilated people -- but it is an important one. Not rated. 85 minutes. The Screen, Santa Fe. (Pau...
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE. If you've ever said, "Gee, I wish they made music videos for my favorite Beatles songs," you're in luck. Julie fraymor's candy-colored musical fantasia combines a TV-movie-style précis of tumultuous youth in the late 1960s with a textbook boy-meets-girl-then-loses-girl plot energized by Beatles tunes, most delivered in elaborate song-and-dance set pieces. Hum along as Jude from Liverpool (Jim Sturgess) meets Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), her brother Maxwell (Joe Anderson) and assorted compatriots (JoJo, Sadie, Prudence, Mr. Kite, et al.). This isn't quite the train wreck that 1978's deliriously bad Sgf. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band was, but with characters named for Beatles tunes and the literalizing of songs, Universe is certainly reminiscent. Fans will enjoy the mos...
... for the recently brokered cease-fire in Sudan. Thus, he was on the ground when the humanitarian ...
. In 2004, former Marine captain Brian Steidle impulsively took a new job: the African Union's unarmed observer for the recently brokered cease-fire in Sudan. He was on the ground when the humanitarian crisis erupted in nearby Darfur.
What can a Marine do when he's issued a camera instead of a gun? That's the question, and the dilemma, former Marine Capt. Brian Steidle faced in 2004, when he volunteered to be a United Nations cease-fire observer in Sudan.
If you ask me, they were kind of boring at the time, all "Roger that" and "A-OK." But it turns out they're regular (and now seasoned) raconteurs, bursting with humor and insight. And some of them even have a touch of the poet, as when one recalls the planet he left behind floating in space "like a jewel hung in the blackness." [David Sington] doesn't really address whether it was worth going to the moon, given that nobody's been back since 1972. But the silence of Neil Armstrong, who once again dodged the world's attention by declining to be interviewed, speaks volumes. He's never been able to quite make peace with the fact that he was the first man to walk on the moon. Or maybe he just doesn't have the words to describe his giant leap for mankind. But the others sure do. And it's both ...
...-fire that ended 20 years of civil war in Sudan But me government in Khartoum, run by Arabs, only ...
Cmdr. Wilson Deng battled government forces for two decades in southern Sudan before a cease-fire was achieved in 2002 and negotiations began to end one of Africa's long-running wars. Now a rebel group from northern Uganda threatens the approaching peace with new fighting in southern Sudan.
UNITED NATIONS -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has put his personal diplomatic clout on the line to end the bloodshed in Darfur, demanding a cease-fire and fresh peace talks in a letter to Sudan's president, U.S. and Sudanese diplomats said Saturday. Ban has asked the Security Council to hold off on sanctions to give President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir time to respond to the confidential letter, which was delivered Friday.
SIRTE, Libya -- Sudan's government committed to a cease-fire in Darfur at the start of peace talks Saturday, but mediators and journalists outnumbered the few rebels who did not boycott the U.N.- sponsored negotiations, reducing hopes for an end to the fighting. The large government delegation said its cessation of hostilities was a sign of goodwill for negotiations aimed at ending over four years of fighting in the western Sudanese region. But the pledge was not matched by the rebels, whose main leaders all refused to attend the talks.
KHARTOUM, Sudan - Government planes breached a cease-fire by bombing villages in northern Darfur, rebel commanders said Sunday as the U.S. called on Sudan to let insurgent factions meet to discuss holding joint peace talks with the regime. The reports on the bombings, which could not be independently confirmed, came days after Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir vowed to adhere to a truce brokered by New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and others during a visit earlier this month.
AL-FASHER, Sudan - The International Committee of the Red Cross said Tuesday it was mounting a major airlift of relief supplies to Sudan's troubled Darfur region, its largest such operation since the war in Iraq. Sudan's interior minister, meanwhile, said a cease-fire with rebel factions in Darfur was violated twice on the opening day of peace talks that aim to bring an end to the crisis.
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