Darfur and the Crime of Genocide

ISBN-13: 9780521731355 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 296 str.

Illinois) John Hagan (Northwestern University; Amherst Wenona Rymond-Richmond (University of Massachusetts

Opis

In 2004, the State Department gathered more than a thousand interviews from refugees in Chad that verified Colin Powell s U.N. and congressional testimonies about the Darfur genocide. The survey cost nearly a million dollars to conduct and yet it languished in the archives as the killing continued, claiming hundreds of thousands of murder and rape victims and restricting several million survivors to camps. This book for the first time fully examines that survey and its heartbreaking accounts. It documents the Sudanese government s enlistment of Arab Janjaweed militias in destroying black African communities. The central questions are: Why is the United States so ambivalent to genocide? Why do so many scholars deemphasize racial aspects of genocide? How can the science of criminology advance understanding and protection against genocide? This book gives a vivid firsthand account and voice to the survivors of genocide in Darfur."

Recenzje

'… contributes to public awareness of the crimes being committed in the Darfur region of Sudan by bringing to attention the forgotten or overlooked voices of survivors …' International Criminal Law Review

Spis treści

Prologue: on our watch; 1. Darfur crime scenes; 2. The crime of crimes; 3. While criminology slept; 4. Flipflopping Darfur; 5. Eye-witnessing genocide; 6. The rolling genocide; 7. The racial spark; 8. Global shadows; Epilogue: collective R2P.