Quantifying Genocide in the Southern Sudan, 1983-1998 (Burr)

Millard Burr's working document for the U.S. Committee for Refugees, tallying deaths from violence, war-related famine and disease, and government policy in southern and central Sudan across the 1983 to 1998 span of the Second Sudanese Civil War, arriving at a total of at least 1.9 million dead. Its strength is a sustained, dedicated effort to quantify a toll that was otherwise going uncounted while the war was still underway. Its limit is that a wartime tally compiled without full access to contested territory necessarily undercounts rather than overcounts, so the published figure is a documented floor rather than a demographic reconstruction with confidence bounds.