No Further Evasion of the Essential Question: What will we do in Darfur?

Abstract

Background: On the very eve of the Rwandan genocide the international community seems finally to have found its voice in condemning the Khartoum regime's brutal, systematic displacement and destruction of the African tribal groups of Darfur, primarily the Masseleit, the Zaghawa, and the Fur. The actions that stand condemned. considered collectively, and given the clear racial/ethnic animus defining them, amount to genocide -the deliberate destruction of these people because of who they are, "as such."