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This letter is in response to Mark Egerman's column [Darfur: more complicated than it seems, 9/7/04]. We were stunned to read his attempt to present a more "complicated" perspective of the genocide in Darfur, though it should first be noted that he did not offer one source to support his conjectures.

His primary claim is that there are "actually two sides" to this conflict because it exists against the backdrop of a twenty-year long civil war in Sudan. This does not, of course, preclude the indisputable fact that the genocide within the Darfur region has been overwhelmingly perpetuated by one group and its allies in Khartoum. In the words of Human Rights Watch, "The uncontrolled presence of Janjaweed in the burned countryside, and in burned...