Summary
Given that we live in an age when information has never been so readily and widely available, the level of misinformation about Darfur in 2008 is little short of extraordinary. When I met the correspondent of a highly respected American newspaper during a three-month stint in Khartoum and Darfur this summer, I was amazed when he told me his editor had asked him blithely to 'Give us an update on how the genocide is going'.
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Monty Python's Guide to the Darfur Conflict
It wasn't the gleaming black helicopter parked on Second Avenue that raised eyebrows. New Yorkers barely blink at such a routine form of transport.
No, passersby were more taken by the improbable banner hanging from its tail: 'SEND ME TO DARFUR'.Last week's publicity stunt in Manhattan, in which a Robinson R44 helicopter was symbolically presented to the United Nations, was or...See the full content of this document
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