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Over 50,000 Sudanese have been killed over the last few months in the latest round of genocide.  While the United Nations (typically) dithers, Darfurian rebel groups continue the ethnic cleansing that arises from “Balkanization.”  What is Balkanization?  With the collapse of Yugoslavia in the late 20th century, small-scale independence movements (formed along ethnic, cultural and religious fault lines) fragmented the Balkan region of Europe by elevating individual cultural heritages over national citizenship.  The “Balkanization of Europe” led to the 1992 Bosnian and Serbian ethnic cleansing — and is tragically similar to the current tragedy in Sudan.

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