Darfur, The Ambiguous Genocide

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More than 400,000 people murdered, thousands homeless, and a total of 2.3 million citizens of Sudan being displaced due to the tragic genocide in Darfur. Unfortunately, these numbers are tending to grow higher and higher each day. All of these consequences are the result of the Sudanese government which put together a group of militiamen who had only one job, to ruin the lives of millions. The book, Darfur, the Ambiguous Genocide which was written by Gerard Prunier and published in 2005 by the Cornell University Press claims “it seemed that an insurgency against the government had started and that this was being countered by extreme means including, strangely, raids by groups of horsemen (Janjaweed) who massacred peasants and burnt whole

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