Book description
In this no-holds-barred account, the former head of the United
Nations in Sudan reveals for the first time the shocking depths of
evil plumbed by those who designed and orchestrated 'the final
solution' in Darfur.
A veteran of humanitarian crisis and ethnic cleansing in Iraq,
Rwanda, Srebrenica, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone, Dr Mukesh Kapila
arrived in Sudan in March 2003 having made a promise to himself that
if he were ever in a position to stop the mass-killers, they would
never triumph on his watch.
Against a Tide of Evil is a strident and passionate cri de
coeur. It is the deeply personal account of one man driven to
extreme action by the unwillingness of those in power to stop mass
murder. It explores what empowers a man like Mukesh Kapila to stand up
and be counted, and to act alone in the face of global indifference
and venality.
Kapila's story reads like a knife-edge international thriller as he
risks all to use the powers at his disposal to bring to justice those
responsible for the first mass murder of the twenty-first century: the
Darfur genocide.
Mukesh Kapila is a medical doctor, humanitarian expert and
international aid diplomat. Currently a professor at Manchester
University, he has experience in over 130 countries serving in senior
positions in the British government and at the United Nations, World
Health Organization and the International Federation of Red Cross and
Red Crescent Societies. His dealings with many dictators and despots
across the world's trouble spots have led him to focus on the prevention
of genocide and the other most horrible crimes against humanity, as
special representative of the Aegis Trust.
