There has been no visible effort by the Government to disarm the militia or hold them to account in accordance with past agreements and Security Council resolutions during the reporting period.

In fact, this trend of dehumanization is apparent in almost every epic of genocide, massacre, war, and atrocity including the Cambodian genocide massacres, the the massacres of Serbs and Bosnians in the Yugoslav wars, the Armenian genocide, and the Holocaust.

The Security Council also expresses its concern that the Secretary General's report of 19 September stated there had been no visible effort by the Government of Sudan to disarm the militia or hold them to account in accordance with past agreements and Security Council resolutions.

The Republicans explicit campaign of disenfranchisement in some states like Pennsylvania, where they tried to make it more difficult for African Americans and Latinos to register to vote backfired those whose rights were threatened were motivated to turn out and exercise them.