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John Hagan and Wenona Rymond-Richmond. Darfur and the Crime of Genocide. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Cambridge Studies in Law and Society series, xxiv + 271 pp. Glossary. List of Characters. Maps. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Index. $85.00. Cloth. $25.99. Paper.
Has the crime of genocide been committed in Darfur?
Some writers have answered this question in the negative, while others have said yes: a debate on the question rages among scholars and practitioners, including journalists and human rights activists. The authors of the book under review have joined the fray, siding with those who believe that genocide has indeed been committed. In doing so, they draw on the combined disciplines of criminology and sociology to prove the case for genocide by reference to numerous cases of victims of atrocities in Darfur. For this presentation the primary source for those atrocities is evidence from the victims themselves, now found in the Chad refugee camps; their stories were collected by the Atrocities Documentation Survey (ADS) organized and financed by the U.S. State Department.
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