{"id":1237,"date":"2005-10-08T13:05:13","date_gmt":"2005-10-08T12:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2005\/10\/08\/darfur_not_genocide"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:57:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:57:54","slug":"darfur_not_genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2005\/10\/08\/darfur_not_genocide","title":{"rendered":"Darfur &#8220;not genocide&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day late, I know (following a reminder and some new info on <a href=\"http:\/\/leninology.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/jonathan-steele-darfur-was-not.html\">Lenin&#39;s Tomb<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Columnists\/Column\/0,5673,1586994,00.html\">Jonathan Steele commented<\/a> in the <em>Guardian<\/em> yesterday that the UN secretary-general has published a report that &quot;attacks the government for not disarming the Janjaweed or holding enough people accountable for last year&#39;s atrocities, but it blames the rebels for most of this year&#39;s abductions of civilians and attacks on aid convoys&quot;.  He also concludes that the conflict was not genocide or classic ethnic cleansing and that intellectuals were not targeted, as in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn recent weeks there has been a turn for the worse. A new chain of tit-for-tat violence is developing. Janjaweed forces attacked a displaced people&#39;s camp in western Darfur last week, an unprecedented assault on a sanctuary in which at least 30 people died, and AU monitors report that government helicopter gunships were seen over the camp. This may have been retaliation for a rebel seizure of a town a few days earlier.<br \/>\nTo its credit, Washington has stepped up efforts to get the anti-government rebels to stop blocking the peace talks now under way in Abuja. As inter-ethnic tensions among the rebels grow stronger, leaders of the Zaghawa, the main fighters, are unwilling to attend despite face-to-face pleas from US and UN diplomats urging them to accept the model that ended the much longer war between the government and the south.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last April, in an <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/4739647\/\">interview with MSNBC<\/a>, Mercedes Taty of MSNBC disputed the commonly-heard genocide interpretation of the trouble in Darfur.  Steele&#39;s article also mentions that no evidence has been produced of Sudanese involvement in terrorism, and that the country has in fact co-operated in the fight against terrorism by &quot;keep[ing] tabs on Somali, Saudi and other Arab fundamentalists who pass through its territory&quot;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day late, I know (following a reminder and some new info on Lenin&#39;s Tomb): Jonathan Steele commented in the Guardian yesterday that the UN secretary-general has published a report that &quot;attacks the government&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-jX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42778,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/42778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}