Darfur and the crime of genocide / John Hagan, Wenona Rymond-Richmond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hagan, John, 1946- author.

Rymond-Richmond, Wenona, 1972- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide--Sudan--Darfur.

Genocide.

Crimes against humanity.

Sudan--Darfur.

Crimes against humanity--Sudan--Darfur.

Sudan--History--Darfur Conflict, 2003-.

Sudan.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 269 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Darfur & the Crime of Genocide

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

In 2004, the State Department gathered more than a thousand interviews from refugees in Chad that verified Colin Powell's UN 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 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.

Contents:

Darfur crime scenes

The crime of crimes

While criminology slept / with Heather Schoenfeld

Flip-flopping Darfur / with Alberto Palloni and Patricia Parker

Eyewitnessing genocide

The rolling genocide

The racial spark

Global shadows.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780511804748

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