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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782210903321

Autore

Hagan John <1946->

Titolo

Darfur and the crime of genocide / / John Hagan, Wenona Rymond-Richmond [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2009

ISBN

1-107-19053-3

0-511-73667-3

1-281-94490-4

9786611944902

0-511-80474-1

0-511-45627-1

0-511-45758-8

0-511-45457-0

0-511-45356-6

0-511-45560-7

Descrizione fisica

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

Collana

Cambridge studies in law and society

Disciplina

345/.0251

Soggetti

Genocide - Sudan - Darfur

Crimes against humanity - Sudan - Darfur

Sudan History Darfur Conflict, 2003-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-261) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.