More than 2.5 million people have been driven into refugee camps as a result of the Sudanese government's scorched-earth policy in the troubled Darfur region. The policy has flattened villages and killed about 300,000 people. Getty ImagesFrom Washington Time:
Challenges narrative laid out by humanitarian aid groups
Mahmood Mamdani, a Uganda-born professor of anthropology and political science at Columbia University, has created a raging controversy over whether the Sudanese government's response to a six-year rebellion in Darfur constitutes a genocide.
In a new book, "Saviors and Survivors," the Columbia professor weaves history, statistics on deaths and displacements, and 156 pages of footnotes to support his view that no genocide occurred in the country's vast westernmost province.
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My Comment: Many are comparing Gaza to the jewish Holocaust in the Second World War. Language and the meaning of language changes all the time .... I guess the meaning of genocide is one of those terms.
From my point of view, Darfur is ethnic cleansing with genocide being the added benefit for the monsters who are pushing this conflict.