Darfur
Subtitle: the ambiguous genocide
By: Gérard Prunier.
Series: Crises in world politics
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Genocide -- Sudan -- Darfur; Darfur (Sudan) -- History
Description: "In mid-2004 the Darfur crisis in Western Sudan forced itself on to the centre stage of world affairs. 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."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-203) and index.
Table of contents: title: Independent Darfur : land, people, history; title: Darfur and Khartoum (1916-1985) : an unhappy relationship; title: From marginalization to revolt : manipulated "Arabism" and "racial" anarchy (1985-2003); title: Fear at the centre : from counter-insurgency to quasi-genocide (2003-2005); title: The world and the Darfur crisis; title: Conclusion : Darfur and the global Sudan crisis