Publication

2005 - Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

53,000 words, Guess

Page Count

212 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • LCCDT159.6.D27 P78 2005

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

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Crises in world politics

Other Editions

  • Darfur: the ambiguous genocideCornell University Press2005-01-01

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