Read it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skip ahead if you’re sick of reading about the genocide in Darfur. Samantha Power wrote a great piece in The New Yorker a few weeks ago about Darfur. Here it is. I didn’t link to it earlier because I couldn’t find any sort of searchable archives at the magazine’s site. Good job, Conde Nast! Prof. … <\/p>\n
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True, but TV crews could at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Sudan"","block_context":{"text":"Sudan","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sudan"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":373,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm","url_meta":{"origin":339,"position":1},"title":"Lame and obtuseRomeo Dallaire is\u2026","author":"Gil","date":"September 3, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Lame and obtuseRomeo Dallaire is pissed at the international (lack of) response to the genocide in Darfur:\"I am just disgusted with the lame and obtuse responses coming from Canada and the Western world.\"Why should you care what he thinks? 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Until then, here's an e-mail response I received from Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), regarding the Sudan query I sent him last month:Dear Gil:Thank you for expressing your concerns about Sudan.I appreciate your concerns regarding the civil war ongoing in Sudan,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Sudan"","block_context":{"text":"Sudan","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sudan"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":348,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/au-report-from-darfur","url_meta":{"origin":339,"position":3},"title":"AU report from Darfur","author":"Gil","date":"September 21, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"It's a poor choice of words, but here's a harrowing report from the commander of the South African contingent of the African Union's monitors in Darfur: Colonel Barry Steyn [...] says he counts bodies of Sudan army and Janjaweed victims each week and sends classified reports to Addis Ababa. 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I've been pretty quiet about Darfur lately, mainly because I'm beaten down by the idea that it's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Sudan"","block_context":{"text":"Sudan","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sudan"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":355,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm","url_meta":{"origin":339,"position":5},"title":"DoubtsAccording to a magazine called\u2026","author":"Gil","date":"September 16, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"DoubtsAccording to a magazine called Expatica (for American expatriots living in Europe), German intel denies Die Welt's story about Syria testing chemical weapons in Darfur:German intelligence sources said Wednesday they had no information which could confirm a report claiming Syria had tested chemical weapons in cooperation with the government of\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}