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16 May 08
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30,000 have died and a million are said to be homeles
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are demanding armed action
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intensifying hostility to the isolated Khartoum regime
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the US has been trying to overthrow for a decade.
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a case of murderous government-backed Arab militias, called 'Janjaweed,' slaughtering helpless blacks.
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can Khartoum end the strife at will:
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One of the Islamic World's first anti-colonial movements, known in the west as the Dervishes, burst from the wastes of Darfur in the 1880's
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Dervishes drove the British imperialists from Sudan,
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But remote Darfur remained a hotbed of rebellion.
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two anti-Khartoum insurgencies simmered in Darfur
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CIA has reportedly supplied arms and money to Darfur's rebels. Washington recently developed interest in Chad, which has oil and gas deposits.
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Washington is using Darfur's rebels,
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to destabilize the Khartoum regime, whose policies have been deemed insufficiently pro-American and too Islamic.
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Sudan has oil, as well as that other precious commodity, water.
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launched widescale attacks on government garrisons after receiving new arms and supplies from abroad, gravely threatening Khartoum's hold on Darfur.
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Civilians were caught in the crossfire.
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Arab whites versus African blacks, all concerned are dark-skinned Sudanese Muslims
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rebels, nomads, and farmers, tribes and clans.
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n southern Sudan, most of the violence stems from land grabs, banditry, cattle-rustling, women stealing, and local vendettas.
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Darfur is certainly a humanitarian crisis meriting foreign aid and African Union troops to bring law and order that Sudan's overstretched army cannot provide
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prolonged that conflict and delayed a peace settlement for decades.
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Now, western intervention in Darfur
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could meet strong local resistance from Sudanese, an
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Continuing US attempts to overthrow Sudan's government are only making things worse. Allow Africa to solve its own problems.
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