![]() ![]() Conclusion : Darfur and the global Sudanese crisis. Fear at the centre : from counter-insurgency to quasi-genocide (2003-2005) A passionate and highly readable account of the current tragedy that combines intimate knowledge of the regions history, politics, and sociology with a telling. From marginalization to revolt : manipulated "Arabism" and "racial" anarchy (1985-2003) Darfur and Khartoum (1916-1985) : an unhappy relationship Independent Darfur : land, people, history 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. 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. 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. "In mid-2004 the Darfur crisis in Western Sudan forced itself on to the centre stage of world affairs. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2005 Darfur : the ambiguous genocide / Gérard Prunier Book Bib ID ![]()
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