Intro -- About the authors -- African Arguments -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to the second edition -- 1 | The people of Darfur -- Dor village -- A history of statehood and ethnicity -- Islam in Darfur -- Becoming Sudanese -- 2 | The Sudan government -- Sudan's Islamic revolution -- Counter-insurgency on the cheap -- Ali Osman Mohamed Taha, 'hero of Sudan' -- 3 | The Janjawiid -- Musa Hilal, a big sheikh -- Roots of the northern Janjawiid -- The death of the old order -- The Arab Gathering -- The Masalit war: 'the beginning of the organization of the Janjawiid' -- From Aamo to Misteriha -- Arming the South Darfur Arabs -- Countdown to war -- 4 | The rebels -- The Fur resistence -- The Zaghawa link -- When did the insurrection begin? -- Looking for friends -- Search for a cohesive leadership -- The Justice and Equality Movement -- From The Black Book to guerilla operations -- Throwing off the past -- 'The Kobe control everything!' -- 5 | A war of total destruction, 2003-04 -- 'The planes are ashes' -- Unleashing the Janjawiid -- Bombing Darfur -- Impunity -- Minni Minawi's war -- The war spreads south -- Starving Darfur -- Keeping the secret -- 6 | Wars within wars, 2005-06 -- South Darfur burns -- Criminality and confusion -- The Baggara struggle for neutrality -- The intra-rebel war -- 7 | International reaction -- 'Africa responded with its heart, not its head' -- Opening the eyes of the world -- 'The biggest activist movement since anti-apartheid' -- 'Things are getting worse' -- The responsibility to protect -- 8 | The Abuja peace talks -- Fighting and talking -- Confusion in Abuja -- Drafting the Darfur Peace Agreement -- Forcing the peace -- Obituary on Abuja -- 9 | Endless chaos -- 'We can kill anyone who is against this agreement' -- 'What peace are you talking about?' -- 'God willing, on our way to Khartoum'.

Double-dealing in Asmara -- The elusive search for unity -- The neglected soldiers -- The attack on AMIS at Haskanita -- Getting the UN to Darfur -- The politics of exhaustion -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Dramatis personae -- The government -- Arab leaders -- Northern Sudanese political leaders -- The Rebels: Sudan Liberation Army -- The Rebels: the Justice and Equality Movement -- The rebels: others -- Sudan People's Liberation Army -- Chad -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Bibliography -- Index -- Photo plate section -- 1 Suni market in Jebel Marra, 1986 -- 2 Lake Gineik in North Darfur, 2004 -- 3 The road to Aamo, 1985 -- 4 Shiekh Hilal Mohamed Abdalla, 1985 -- 5 Musa Hilal, 2004 -- 6 Um Jalul boys at Aamo, 1985 -- 7 A Masalit rebel, 2004 -- 8 A Masalit village, 2004 -- 9 Shoba village, 2002 -- 10 Abdel Wahid al Nur, 2005 -- 11 Zaghawa fighters, 2004 -- 12 JEM fighters, 2004 -- 13 Ismail Adam Mohamed 'Abunduluk', 2007 -- 14 Shoba village, 2002 -- 15 Fur rebels from Korma, 2007 -- 16 Food distribution, 2005 -- 17 The DPA signing ceremony, 2006 -- 18 Heavy weapons, 2007 -- 19 Al Salam camp, 2005 -- 20 Bir Maza village, 2007 -- 21 AMIS personnel, 2007 -- 22 Anwar Ahmad Khater in jail, 2007.

Darfur has become synonymous with genocide and humanitarian crisis. A guide to the conflict, this book provides a short history of the region, and traces the origins, organization and ideology of the infamous Janjawiid and other rebel groups, including the Sudan Liberation Army and the Justice and Equality Movement.

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