From the author of "Good Muslim, Bad Muslim "comes an important
book, unlike any other, that looks at" "the crisis in Darfur within
the context of the history of Sudan and examines the world's
response to that crisis.
In "Saviors and Survivors," Mahmood Mamdani explains how the
conflict in Darfur began as a civil war (1987--89) between nomadic
and peasant tribes over fertile land in the south, triggered by a
severe drought that had expanded the Sahara Desert by more than
sixty miles in forty years; how British colonial officials had
artificially tribalized Darfur, dividing its population into
"native" and "settler" tribes and creating homelands for the former
at the expense of the latter; how the war intensified in the 1990s
when the Sudanese government tried unsuccessfully to address the
problem by creating homelands for tribes without any. The
involvement of opposition parties gave rise in 2003 to two rebel
movements, leading to a brutal insurgency and a horrific
counterinsurgency-but not to genocide, as the West has declared.
Mamdani also explains how the Cold War exacerbated the twenty-year
civil war in neighboring Chad, creating a confrontation between
Libya's Muammar al-Qaddafi (with Soviet support) and the Reagan
administration (allied with France and Israel) that spilled over
into Darfur and militarized the fighting. By 2003, the war involved
national, regional, and global forces, including the powerful
Western lobby, who now saw it as part of the War on Terror and
called for a military invasion dressed up as "humanitarian
intervention."
Incisive and authoritative, "Saviors and Survivors "will radically
alter our understanding of the crisis in Darfur.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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