The Darfur
conflict's deadly gold rush
Reuters | Oct 9, 2013, 06.25 AM IST
KHARTOUM: With its scrubland, unpaved roads and mud brick huts, the
Jebel Amer area in Darfur, western Sudan,
can look like a poor and desolate place. Under the ground, though, lies
something sought by people everywhere: gold.
In the past year or so the
precious metal has begun to alter the nature of the decade-old conflict in Darfur, transforming it from an ethnic and political
fight to one that, at least in part, is over precious metal.
Darfur
Save Darfur
Coalition is a merged organization with the Genocide Intervention Network.
Note: Joan R. Platt was
a director at the Genocide Intervention
Network, is a director at the Save
Darfur Coalition, and a director at the Human Rights Watch.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Human Rights Watch.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and was a benefactor for the Human Rights Watch.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Human Rights Watch.
Barbra
Streisand Foundation was a funder for the Human Rights Watch.
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