Darfur and the Crime of Genocide

This book explores firsthand accounts of the genocide in Darfur.

John Hagan (Author), Wenona Rymond-Richmond (Author)

9780521731355, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 13 October 2008

296 pages, 2 maps 7 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.41 kg

'… 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

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.

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.

Subject Areas: International criminal law [LBBZ], Criminology: legal aspects [LAR], Law & society [LAQ]