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Le Darfour : un génocide ambigu |
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Mardi, 24 Avril 2007 20:05 |
Le Darfour : un génocide ambigu
par Gérard Prunier
Editions de La Table Ronde
2005, 267 p., 19.5 euros
ISBN : 2710328143
Depuis février 2003, le Darfour, province orientale du Soudan jouxtant le Tchad est le théâtre de massacres épouvantables suivis d'une famine largement programmée par l'action des autorités gouvernementales.
Génocide ou pas ? La communauté internationale s'interroge mais, en attendant, la population meurt. L'ouvrage de Gérard Prunier remonte dans le temps pour expliquer ce qu'a été le Darfour, pays indépendant du Soudan jusqu'en 1916. Il montre comment il a été marginalisé sur tous les plans tant pendant la période coloniale que du fait des gouvernements qui ont suivi l'indépendance en 1956. La révolte du Darfour et la violence de la répression qui a suivi ont fait exploser le mythe des guerres « religieuses » au Soudan puisqu'ici tout le monde, tueurs et victimes, est musulman.
Pour l'auteur, il s'agit d'une guerre de races, d'autant plus paradoxale que les « Arabes » sont noirs et les Noirs souvent arabophones. Mais Khartoum espère garder le contrôle d'une périphérie qui lui fait désormais peur en dressant les unes contre les autres des tribus qui avaient jusque-là vécu dans des rapports parfois tendus mais jamais destructeurs. Génocide « ambigu », la crise du Darfour est à l'image des déchirements de l'Afrique contemporaine, dans un pays qui est en train de devenir l'un des plus gros producteurs pétroliers du continent.
Ce livre a paru conjointement en France, en Grande-Bretagne et aux États-Unis. |
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A LONG DAY'S DYING : CRITICAL MOMENTS IN DARFUR GENOCIDE |
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Mardi, 24 Avril 2007 20:03 |
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Coming April 2007 |
| Title: A Long Day's Dying: Critical Moments in Darfur Genocide |
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| Author: Eric REEVES |
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There are no trains leading to the death camps of Darfur. Transportation takes the form of militarily coerced displacement, forcing the African tribal peoples of Darfur, bereft of all resources, to trek over a harsh and unforgiving landscape.
The international community has waited too long, the words have come too late and the actions that such words now demand are even more belated.
The terrible crimes occurring in Darfur must not be ignored. The cries of the dead and dying demand justice; future genocidaires are listening closely noting carefully all failures of international resolve.
The main theme of this new book is that the Khartoum government is committing genocide in Darfur while the international community watches in silence or with mere hand-wringing.
Eric Reeves is Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He has spent the past eight years working full-time as a Sudan researcher and analyst, publishing extensively both in the US and internationally. He has testified several times before the Congress, has lectured widely in academic settings, and has served as a consultant to a number of human rights and humanitarian organizations operating in Sudan. Working independently, he has written on all aspects of Sudan's recent history.
Publication of such an important book, at this critical moment in the Darfur genocide offers to government officials, academics, humanitarian aid groups, human rights organizations, as well as to the broader public an in-depth critical assessment of the current situation in Darfur.
It also provides an unsparing assessment of the international community?s diplomatic efforts, past and present, to respond to Darfur. Such an assessment comes at a defining moment. The world is watching clearly and yet responding weakly. Action is essential now if we are not to see a further extension of the international failures so conspicuous in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.
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Mardi, 24 Avril 2007 19:50 |
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Will Khartoum’s Omar al-Bashir Assume the Chair of the African Union ? |
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Mardi, 24 Avril 2007 19:43 |
The organization is poised for disastrous self-discrediting
Eric Reeves January 24, 2007
In a matter of days, the African Union (AU) is slated to make a decision that will do much to determine the future of the fledgling organization. At the Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) summit of January 29-30, it will either elect the President of Khartoum’s National Islamic Front (NIF) regime to chairmanship of the AU---or it will elect the head of another African country, one not responsible for massive, ongoing genocidal destruction. To be sure, the world outside Africa has been scandalously unresponsive to the four-year counter-insurgency war that Khartoum has waged against the non-Arab or African populations of Darfur, a campaign that has now claimed half a million lives and produced a conflict-affected population of some 5 million civilians in Darfur and neighboring eastern Chad. But the AU itself has in many ways been just as unresponsive, both politically and diplomatically. Militarily, the under-equipped and under-manned AU force on the ground in Darfur has performed poorly, without an appropriate civilian protection mandate, and is now badly demoralized. The AU recognizes that it desperately needs augmentation by non-African forces---something Khartoum adamantly refuses to accept. |
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