Publication

Jun 2009

This paper examines the Sudanese government's counterinsurgency mobilization of 2003–04, who supported it and who did not — and why. It attempts to distinguish this period of the war from the years that followed. While recognizing that terrible things happened, with long-lasting destructive consequences, it argues that the conflict, the militias, and their role all changed over time — a fact lost in a continuing narrative of 'janjaweed' and 'victims.'

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Author Julie Flint
Series Small Arms Survey HSBA for Sudan and South Sudan Working Papers
Issue 17
Publisher Small Arms Survey
Copyright © 2009 Small Arms Survey (SAS)
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