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01/28/2005:

"On defining genocide"

The US decision to use the label ‘genocide’ to the Darfur crisis was correct in law – atrocities needed to be stopped and their perpetrators punished. But it also dragged Darfur into a wider global scheme, a polarity in which Arabs are collectively labelled and stigmatised, and divisive identities imposed upon poor and strife-ridden parts of the world.

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