Word: khartoum
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...more scarce, that history of cooperation may help persuade some local Arabs and non-Arabs to join forces against the central government. Commanders of the non-Arab rebels told me some Janjaweed commanders have defected, in part out of fear that they will be abandoned by their backers in Khartoum and face arrest for war crimes...
...underlying problem is that when it comes to Darfur, governments have thus far done little more than talking. Neither the U.S. nor the E.U. are willing to forcefully intervene for humanitarian reasons, and rising powers like China have undermined multilateral economic pressure by signing trade treaties with the Khartoum regime that sponsors the Janjaweed paramilitaries. And as usual, with no willing hard power around, United Nations’ resolutions seem at best inconsequential...
...length of rope but a vast, closed chain, incomprehensibly complex and ever changing. When you look at life from this second perspective, some unlikely connections reveal themselves. You're forced to retreat from the den of libertarianism and sniff the wind, to wake up when someone in Khartoum or Mogadishu twitches in his sleep...
...After the ICC ruling, everything changed," says Zeber Muktar Salim, a spokesman for one of the several S.L.A. factions. The J.E.M.'s head of logistics, Nasiruddin Ahmed Taendy, added: "Khartoum hired the Janjaweed to kill their brother Darfurians. Now the Janjaweed have found out they were deceived - and they suspect the government will sell them out to the I.C.C. We are expecting the numbers of defectors to increase...
...Rebel leaders hope that defections would weaken Khartoum's military capabilities on the ground, and even help build a united Darfur rebel army to bring down the government. But it's questionable whether such an alliance of convenience is possible, let alone capable of enduring. And if its objective is to continue a war that has already left 200,000 dead and displaced 2.5 million people, it's far from clear that it would be good news for the long-suffering Darfurians...