Justice & Law Quote by Jan Egeland

The sentence is built like an alarm bell disguised as a briefing. Egeland, a veteran humanitarian official, chooses the diction of institutions - "reports", "daily basis", "our own people on the ground" - to establish credibility before delivering the payload: "widespread atrocities" and "grave violations". The intent is not poetic; it is prosecutorial. He is laying down an evidentiary trail in public, the kind that makes it harder for governments and international bodies to plead ignorance later.

"Daily basis" is the quiet knife. It frames Darfur not as a tragic episode but as an ongoing system of violence, renewing moral urgency every 24 hours. "Our own people" does double work: it signals first-hand verification (this isn't rumor or propaganda) and inserts a human chain of responsibility from field workers to diplomats to the audience. The subtext is a rebuke to the news cycle's tendency to treat distant suffering as intermittent, optional knowledge.

The phrase "civilian population" is equally strategic. It anticipates the usual rhetorical escape hatches - civil war, tribal conflict, unfortunate collateral damage - and narrows the frame to protected persons under international law. By pairing "atrocities" with the more legalistic "violations of human rights", Egeland bridges two publics: the emotionally moved and the policy-bound. The context is a period when Darfur was being debated as a "humanitarian crisis" versus a crime demanding political consequences. This line tries to force the upgrade: from tragedy to accountability, from sympathy to action.