In a bit of good news for drought stricken Sudan, the AP report still injects some prevailing narratives to blame the genocide on "root causes" as opposed to an Islamist civil war, with African tribes rebelling against the Arab supported government in Khartoum imposing sharia law. While many regional conflicts can be complicated by competition for resources, do we really believe that muslim militias will stop killing infidels if given the choice to go back to farming? The only whiff in the story that there is an Islam component to the Darfur atrocities lies in this single sentence: "The Darfur conflict began in February 2003, when African tribesmen took up arms, complaining of decades of neglect and discrimination by the Arab-led Khartoum government." Neglect and discrimination by an Arab-led government? Whatever could that mean?
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