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Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide | 
 enlarge | Author: M. W. Daly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 496540
Media: Paperback
Pages: 388
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0521699622
Dewey Decimal Number: 962.4043
EAN: 9780521699624
ASIN: 0521699622
Publication Date: June 18, 2007
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Condition: 2007. Paperback.Slight wear, remainder mark. Very Good.
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Product Description
Darfur is a region set apart, huge, remote and poverty stricken. Its people are today locked in conflict, terrorised by the lawless Arab militia known as janjawid. As M.W. Daly explains, the roots of the crisis lie deep in Darfur's past. Tracing the story from the origins of the Fur state in the seventeenth century to Darfur's annexation by the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, he shows how years of neglect left the region unprepared for independence. This complex story is told with compassion, insight and a strong sense of place.
Book Description
A compelling analysis of the Darfur crisis. Tracing ithe story from the origins of the Fur state in the seventeenth century to Darfur's annexation, M.W. Daly shows how years of neglect left the region unprepared for independence. This complex story is told with compassion and a strong sense of place.
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A Blood Soaked Genocide November 14, 2007
Wolf Roder (Cincinnati, Ohio USA)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
In the last chapter Daly describes the killing in Darfur every bit as bloody and destructive as anything you may have read in daily paper or magazine. The author makes it clear the national government of the Sudan has every intention to murder and drive the Fur people out of Darfur and take over their land. To carry out this ethnic cleansing, the Sudan Government encourages the pastoral livestock herders to act as marauders (the janjawid). In their extermination campaign they are supported by the Sudanese national army and air force. To avoid international or UN sanctions this government has repeatedly procrastinated, lied, and broken duly signed agreements and promises.
That is in the last chapter. Most of the book provides the historic background, how Darfur became what it is. History begins sometime in the 15th or 16th century with various independent principalities. Throughout history, during the Mahdyya, during the Egyptian and British colonial period, and even after independence Darfur was treated a special region. Generally neglected, it rarely played a role in the wider nation. Yet, at independence in 1956 some 55 percent of people in Darfur used Arabic at home, and only 42 percent spoke Fur. Thus the "racial" divide between "Arabs" and others is bogus. Daly has written an excellent readable history of the region.
Finally some understanding September 17, 2007
J J BAGS (MASSACHUSETTS USA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
It isn't that books such as these are of no interest to me;it's often just a case of dealing with difficult names and places which are overwhelming in English to the general, unsophisticated reader. For years now, we've read about terrible atrocities taking place in a faraway land; an area both remote and virtually unknown to the Western reader. At last,M.W.Daly has produced a book that is both informative and intelligible. First of all, it is a work of the history of this forbidding region, not a "blow by blow" description of a 21st century inquisition scene. Secondly,if the reader is able to subordinate relatively unimportant names to the general whole, the book reads very lucidly,a welcome relief to the non-expert,I suspect. Finally,albeit ominously,this problem area is not about to go away.Readers on all levels would be well advised to read this important book and to keep apace with Daly's future research.
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