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Sto caricando le informazioni... Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide (edizione 2005)di Gerard Prunier
Informazioni sull'operaDarfur: The Ambiguous Genocide, Revised and Updated Edition di Gérard Prunier
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During 2003, occasional reports emerged in the international media of fighting in Darfur, a huge tract of western Sudan bordering Chad. Over the next year the picture became confused, as - depending on who was doing the talking - a minor rebellion became a tribal spat, or nomads taking on farmers, or Arab-versus-African ethnic cleansing, or genocide. An outside world that understood political violence in Sudan through the simplistic lens of the unending war between Muslim north and Christian/animist south - a war that seemed to be about to end - had to adjust. And nothing that has emerged since has made that adjustment easy. If Darfuris are Muslim, what is their quarrel with the Islamic government in Khartoum? If they and the janjaweed - 'evil horsemen' - driving them from their homes are both black, how can it be Arab versus African? If the Sudanese government is making peace with the south, why would it be risking that by waging war in the west? Above all, is it genocide? Gerard Prunier has the answers. An ethnographer and renowned Africa analyst, he turns on the evasions of Khartoum the uncompromising eye that dissected Hutu power excuses for the Rwanda genocide a decade ago. The emergency is far from over, as Gerard Prunier points out in this comprehensive and authoritative book...He concisely covers the history, the conflicts, and the players...Prunier warns that a conflict crossing many tribes, ethnic groups, and countries with concerns of racial, religious, likely to end soon. Essential for anyone wanting to learn about this complex conflict; recommended for academic as well as all African and international collections. A passionate and highly readable account of the current tragedy that combines intimate knowledge of the region's history, politics, and sociology with a telling cynicism about the polite but ineffectual diplomatic efforts to end it. It is the best account available of the Darfur crisis. Appartiene alle Serie
In mid-2004 the Darfur crisis in Western Sudan forced itself onto the center stage of world affairs. Arab Janjaweed militias, who support the Khartoum government, have engaged in a campaign of violence against the residents of Western Sudan. A formerly obscure tribal conflict in the heart of Africa has escalated into the first genocide of the twenty-first century. In sharp contrast to official reaction to the Rwandan massacres, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell called the situation in Darfur a genocide in September 2004. Its characteristics Arabism, Islamism, famine as a weapon of war, mass rape, international obfuscation, and a refusal to look evil squarely in the face reflect many of the problems of the global South in general and of Africa in particular. Journalistic explanations of the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe have been given to hurried generalizations and inaccuracies: the genocide has been portrayed as an ethnic clash marked by Arab-on-African violence, with the Janjaweed militias under strict government control, but neither of these impressions is strictly true. Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide explains what lies behind the conflict, how it came about, why it should not be oversimplified, and why it is so relevant to the future of the continent. G rard Prunier sets out the ethnopolitical makeup 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 secessionism in the Christian South. This, he argues, accounts for the government s deployment of exemplary violence by the Janjaweed militias in order to intimidate other African Muslims into subservience. As the world watches, governments decide if, when, and how to intervene, and international organizations struggle to distribute aid, the knowledge in Prunier's book will provide crucial assistance. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Of all the subjects dealt with in this book, I thought the chapters dealing with proxy wars between Sudan, Chad, and Libya, supported by the CIA and France; the role of humanitarianism in the post-Cold War world; and “counter-insurgency on the cheap,” especially the parallels the author draws between Khartoum’s counter-insurgency efforts in Darfur with those of the French in Algeria, and the U.S. in Vietnam and more recently in Iraq, the most interesting to read.
I would have marked it as 4/5 stars if it weren’t for two editorial issues: 1.) There is a lot of spelling/grammatical errors, and 2.) The use of certain abbreviations, especially SLA and SLM, because while there is a glossary of abbreviations that includes SLA, there is nothing about the SLM, and later in the book the author frequently uses SLM interchangeably with SLA leading to some confusion. (