GÉRARD PRUNIER Darfur A 21st Century Genocide THIRD EDITION Cornell University Press Ithaca, New York CONTENTS Preface and Acknowledgements Glossary of Arabic Terms Abbreviations Map 1. Independent Darfur: Land, People, History The economy and the lie of the land Population: a complex ethnic mosaic The independent Darfur Sultanate Umm Kwakiyya, the time of the bandits Ali Dinar and Darfur’s last independent years (1898–1916) 2. Darfur and Khartoum (1916–1985): An Unhappy Relationship Colonial benign neglect: romanticism and underdevelopment On the margins of history: Darfur and Sudanese nationalism Reaching for the Centre: the frustrations of democratic politics in Darfur The Chadian-Libyan factor: a fundamental element of destabilization From maladministration to famine: the 1984 catastrophe 3. From Marginalization to Revolt: Manipulated “Arabism” and “Racial” Anarchy (1985–2003) Consequences of the 1984 famine Khartoum’s “democratic” politics and the Chadian conflict Libya’s “victory” in Chad, a new Darfur famine and the Daud Bolad insurrection Centre versus Periphery: Darfur in a global Sudanese perspective 4. Fear at the Centre: From Counter-Insurgency to Quasi-Genocide (2003–2005) Centre versus Centre: the Islamists’internal quarrels and their spillover into Darfur Naivasha and the “feel good factor” Khartoum wakes up to the danger “Counter-insurgency on the cheap” Improvising a “final solution” Foreign intervention and death by attrition 5.
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