Makau Mutua: Racism at root of Sudan's Darfur crisis

The visits by United States Secretary of State Colin Powell and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to Sudan last week gave hope that the genocide in Darfur can be arrested before an entire people is obliterated.

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The visits by United States Secretary of State Colin Powell and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to Sudan last week gave hope that the genocide in Darfur can be arrested before an entire people is obliterated.


A Sudanese refugee cries moments after she and her family reached the safety of Bahai on the Chad border, Friday, July 9, 2004. Picture: AP
Ducked the inequities
Makau Mutua is professor of law and director of the Human Rights Centre at the State University of New York at Buffalo

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