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...flew to Chad and drove east to the 21st century's first war over water. Darfur, a barren, mountainous land just below the Sahara in western Sudan, is one of the world's worst man-made disasters. Four years of fighting has killed 200,000 people and made refugees of 2.5 million more. The immediate cause is well known: the Arab supremacist janjaweed and their backers in the Sudanese government are waging a campaign to exterminate African and Arab settler farmers in Darfur by slaughter, rape and pillage, burning thousands of villages to the ground...
...easy to forget that before man added his own catastrophe, life in Darfur was already a gathering natural disaster. To live on the arid soil of the Sahel is an eternal struggle for water, food and shelter. In the past, nomad Arab herders and settled farmers (Arabs and Africans) worked together: the farmers allowed the herders' livestock on their land in exchange for milk and meat. But as good land became scarcer, the two sides began to fight over it. "You might laugh if I say that the main reason of this issue is a camel," said Libyan leader Muammar...
...contemporary case of Darfur, American politicians didn’t hesitate to use the “g-word.” With the war on terror spreading throughout both Afghanistan and Iraq, anti-Arab sentiment was palpable at the time, and again, the United States had little to lose in labeling the actions of the Arab janjaweed as genocidal before the U.N. could. Yet, again, intervention and even effectual advocacy has been slow to come...
What implications does the success or failure of MONUC have for other peacekeeping operations? Every case is different. Darfur is very different. Every time a U.N. peacekeeping force deploys, it raises lots of questions. But yes, there are issues raised by our experience that will have a long-term effect. There is a very fine line between peacekeeping and peace enforcement. Our mission was equipped for peacekeeping. And as one of my officers says, you don't go to war in blue helmets and white tanks. When we shift from a monitoring group to one that takes on military elements...
Using the breaking and entering skills that one naturally picks up from living in New Haven, we infiltrated The Crimson’s press room and inserted this message instead of their staff editorial, which was some dumb thing about Darfur that we didn’t understand and something about a “bailout” that we can only assume relates to crew...