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08/18/2004:
"Enough Imperial Crusades"
The Alternative to Armed Intervention in Darfur is not Passive Resignation, but Support for an African Union-led Solutionby Peter Hallward
What is exceptional about the violence of the government-backed Janjaweed militia in Darfur, is less its scale than the intense - if belated - international attention it has received.
To oppose direct western intervention in Sudan is not to downplay Khartoum's crimes during this latest twist in the catastrophic war that has cost perhaps two million lives since 1983. Over the last 20 years, in order to shore up their exclusive and authoritarian rule, Sudan's succession of military rulers have done everything possible to sustain an often imaginary distinction between "Arabs" and "Africans", pitting Muslims against Christians and herders against farmers.
Full Article : commondreams.org
