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GLOBAL VOICES: TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION IN SUDAN?

2009 February 19
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by sfcg

This week, Global Voices blogger Juliana Rincon Parra reported on a video that is being circulated by Aegis Trust depicting four Sudanese men who say that they participated in the violence and massacres in Darfur and are not afraid to call it genocide.  Their descriptions of their involvement in the Janjaweed and how the government aided the efforts of the genocidaires are useful at a time when the International Criminal Court has issued a warrant for the arrest of the president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir. 

Question to the Blogosphere:  To what extent is this occurence similar to the efforts of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in Northern Ireland and South Africa?  Do you think that the confessions of these men will help the families victimized by the genocide move on?  How would it be possible to give more people in Sudan access to this video?  Do you think part of the reason the men agreed to do the video was that they assumed few of their victims would see it? 

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