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Lifting the veil; Darfur.(Tears of the Desert: One Woman's True Story of Surviving the Horrors of Darfur)(Book review)
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The Economist (US)
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August 16, 2008
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A witness and victim of the conflict in Darfur finds a voice
SINCE Darfur's resistance to the inequities of Arab rule from Khartoum broke into open warfare in the spring of 2003, as many as 300,000 may have died and about 2.8m have been displaced. At the height of what many have called a "genocide", in 2003-04 Darfur was, in the words of a top United Nations official, the "world's worst humanitarian disaster". Epithets like this helped to turn the benighted region of Darfur from an unknown backwater to the most pressing issue on every Western politician's to-solve list. Since then, of course, the sad fact is that there has been no solution, partly because of the impasse at ...
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