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The Case For Intervention In The Humanitarian Crisis In The Sudan, Leilani F. Battiste
The Case For Intervention In The Humanitarian Crisis In The Sudan, Leilani F. Battiste
Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law
The humanitarian crisis in Darfur presents one of the greatest challenges to the international community since the coordinated massacre of over 800,000 people in Rwanda in 1994. The mass murder of national, ethnic and tribal groups at the hands of both the Sudanese Government and the pro-Arab, government-backed militias, known as the janjaweed, is deemed responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of black Sudanese in the region. Despite the unmistakable tragedy that has occurred and continues to occur, the international community has utterly failed to respond. Debate over whether the term "genocide" should be used to describe the …