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SUDAN: Darfur, more than a conflict
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New African
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May 1, 2004
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"It is genocide." That is, at least, how Mukesh Kapila, the outgoing UN humanitarian coordinator in Khartoum, describes the fighting in the Darfur region of western Sudan. Sala Makki reports.
"The only difference between Rwanda and Darfur now is the numbers involved," says Mukesh Kapila, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Sudan, who was in Rwanda when the 1994 genocide occurred.
The conflict in Darfur, an independent kingdom annexed to Sudan in 1917, started in the 1970s as a low-key dispute between migrant Arab nomads and local African farmers over grazing lands in this drought-prone region. By February 2003, the dispute had turned into a full-fledged civil war.
According to Kapila, the ...
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