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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Flint, Julie. Darfur. London ; New York : Zed Books ; Cape Town : David Philip ; [London] : In association with International African Institute ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 (OCoLC)606926109 Online version: Flint, Julie. Darfur. London ; New York : Zed Books ; Cape Town : David Philip ; [London] : In association with International African Institute ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 (OCoLC)607650550 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Julie Flint; Alexander De Waal; International African Institute. |
| ISBN: | 1842776967 9781842776964 1842776975 9781842776971 |
| OCLC Number: | 60589211 |
| Description: | xiv, 152 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | The people of Darfur. -- Dor village -- A history of statehood and ethnicity -- Islam in Darfur -- Becoming Sudanese -- The Sudan government. -- Sudan's Islamic revolution -- Counterinsurgency on the cheap -- Ali Osman Mohamed Taha, 'Hero of Sudan' -- The Janjawiid. -- Musa Hilal, a big sheikh -- Roots of the northern Janjawiid -- The death of the old order -- The Arab gathering -- The Masalit War: 'the beginning of the organization of the Janjawiid' -- From Aamo to Misteriha -- The rebels. -- The Fur resistance -- The Zaghawa link -- When did the insurrection begin? -- Looking for friends -- Search for a cohesive leadership -- The justice and equality movement -- From The Black Book to guerrilla operations -- The war. -- 'The planes are ashes' -- Unleashing the Janjawiid -- Bombing Darfur -- Creating famine -- Keeping the secret -- Endgame. -- Forward to the past -- The UN and the genocide question. |
| Series Title: | African arguments. |
| Responsibility: | Julie Flint and Alex de Waal. |
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This volume offers a clear explanation of the complicated political and human rights crisis in Darfur.
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"Both writers are intimately familiar with Darfur--Ms. Flint reportedly came close to getting herself killed there when traveling with rebels in 2004--and their accounts are as readable as they are tragic."--Nicholas D. Kristof, "New York Review of Books"<br> Read more...
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