Summary recommendations -- Background -- Abuses by the government - Janjaweed in West Darfur -- "Ethnic cleansing" in West Darfur -- Additional evidence of government working hand in glove with Janjaweed -- Too little, too late: Sudanese and international response 2004 -- Full recommendations-- Appendix A: Population of Sudan: ethnic census of 1956 -- Appendix B: Population of West Darfur -- Appendix C: Some mosques burned in Dar Masalit -- Appendix D: Massacre and mass killing victims -- Methodology -- Acknowledgements.

Summary recommendations -- Background -- Abuses by the government-Janjaweed in west Darfur -- -- "Ethnic cleansing" in west Darfur -- Additional evidence of government working hand in glove with Janjaweed -- Too little, too late : Sudanese and international response 2004 -- Full recommendations.

Darfur is a region set apart: huge, remote, and poverty stricken. Its people are today locked in conflict, terrorized by the lawless Arab militia known as janjawid, which has created what the United Nations has called 'the world's worst humanitarian disaster'. As M. W. Daly, distinguished historian and long-term observer of the Sudan, explains, the roots of the crisis lie deep in Darfur's past. Tracing the story to the origins of the Fur state in the seventeenth century, through imperial expansion, revolution, and finally Darfur's annexation by the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, he shows how years of neglect left the region unprepared for independence. The final chapters focus on the years thereafter, as successive governments failed to rise to the challenges of institution building and economic and political administration, and the region descended into chaos. This is a complex and often harrowing story, told with compassion, insight, and a strong sense of place.

The second edition of the first ever general history of Darfur, bringing the story up to date.

In response to the ongoing mass murder of Black Sudanese groups in the Darfur region of Sudan by Sudanese government troops and Arab militias, the US government sent the Darfur Atrocities Documentation Team to various points along the Chad/Sudan in order to interview refugees from Darfur. Based on their investigation, US Secretary of State Colin Powell formally announced that ‘genocide has occurred in Darfur and may still be occurring.’ The United States officially accused the government of Sudan of perpetrating genocide - the first time that any government has officially and publicly accused another government of genocide. As a result the United States played a key role in pressuring the United Nations Security Council to pass a resolution calling for several measures, including an official UN Commission of Inquiry to conduct a genocide investigation in Sudan itself. This was the first time that any signatory of the Genocide Convention actually triggered provisions of the Convention requiring a UN Security Council response while genocide was occurring. This book is comprised of essays from contributors who were involved in designing the project and hiring and training investigators, interpreters, and support personnel; US government and nongovernmental organization (NGO) officials involved in the genesis of the project as well as the analysis of the data; and numerous scholars, not all of whom were directly involved with the project, who critique aspects of the documentation project as well as its significance.