More on Sudanese Gen. al-Dabi
In his Foreign Policy article, “The World’s Worst Human Rights Observer,” David Kenner argues that the Sudanese member of the Arab League mission to Syria, General al-Dabi, is “the unlikeliest leader of a humanitarian mission the world has ever seen.”
Kenner quotes Alex de Waal on Dabi’s support of the janjaweed militia in Darfur, Sudan:
“[T]he army command finds the militia useful and fearsome in equal measure,” De Waal said. “So al-Dabi’s regularization of the Arab militia served both to rein them in, but also to legitimize their activities and retain them as a future strike force.”
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