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Darfur - The Ambiguous Genocide (Hardcover)
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Darfur - The Ambiguous Genocide (Hardcover)
Series: Crises in World Politics
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In mid-2004 the Darfur crisis in Western Sudan forced itself on to
the centre stage of world affairs. A formerly obscure 'tribal
conflict' in the heart of Africa has escalated into what could be
the first genocide of the twenty-first century. Its characteristics
- Arabism, Islamism, African consciousness, famine as a weapon of
war, mass rape, international obfuscation and a refusal to look
evil squarely in the face - reflect many of the problems of the
global South in general and Africa in particular. Because of the
urgent need for knowledge about this humanitarian catastrophe,
journalistic explanations of the unfolding crisis have often been
rushed and given to hurried generalisations and inaccuracies.
Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide explains what lies behind the
conflict, how it came about, why it should not be over-simplified
and why it is so relevant to the future of the continent. Prunier
sets out the ethnopolitical make up of the Sudan and explains why
the Darfur rebellion is regarded as a key threat to Arab power in
the country, much more so than the secessionism of the Christian
south. This, he argues, accounts for the government's deployment of
'exemplary violence' by the Janjaweed militias in order to cow
other Black Muslims into subservience.
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