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The crisis in Darfur (Sudan), which sparked in February 2003, only caught the United Nations’ attention in Spring 2004. Questions emerged as to whether the conflict between the rebels and the government was simply insurgency warfare or, in fact, concealed a genocide carried out by the Arab, Muslim-led government against the Animist and Christian-African population. The issue became so divisive that the Security Council requested the creation of an investigation team, the International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur, which amongst other tasks had to examine whether genocide had taken place. This article analyzes the facts as well as the legal reasoning that guided the International Commission of Inquiry in drawing the conclusion that a governmental policy to commit genocide had not been formed.
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Noëlle Quénivet (LL.M., Ph.D.) is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England (United Kingdom). This article takes much of a presentation made on 28 September 2004 at the People's Friendship University of Russia, Moscow (Russia). I would like to thank the group of the “weekly research seminar” as well as Simon Meisenberg for triggering some more thoughts about the issue as well as Bernard Dougherty for proof-reading the English text.
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Quénivet, N. The report of The International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur: The question of genocide. Hum Rights Rev 7, 38–68 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-006-1002-y
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