Abstract
In launching the first issue of Genocide Studies and Prevention, we, the four editors (Alex Alvarez, Herb Hirsch, Eric Markusen, and Samuel Totten), feel compelled to address one of the most pressing issues facing genocide scholars today—the current crisis in Darfur, Sudan. It is a crisis that erupted in early 2003 and continues today. It is one in which government of Sudan troops (GoS) and the Janjaweed (Arab militia) are responsible for the mass murder of an estimated 180,000 black Africans (primarily from the Fur, Zaghawa, and Massaleit tribal groups) and possibly more than 250,000 others as a result of genocide by attrition (depriving the more than two million internally displaced persons of adequate food, water, shelter, and medical care)
Recommended Citation
Totten, Samuel and Markusen, Eric
(2006)
"Introduction to the Special Issue on Darfur,"
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal:
Vol. 1:
Iss.
1:
Article 4.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol1/iss1/4
