[lbo-talk] Re: "Save Darfur" etc (and other responses)

[Doug Henwood]

Joseph Wanzala wrote:

>I would also note how the crisis in the Sudan is being framed as a 
>crisis in 'Darfur' (read Kosovo) as if to delink Darfur from the 
>rest of war ravaged Sudan. It is not a matter of stopping 'genocide' 
>or not because if that was the case we would be talking about other 
>regions of Africa as well. Why the focus on Darfur - why not say, 
>okay some people are working on Darfur, how about the Save Northern 
>Uganda or Eastern Gongo movement? Why not start an anti-Uganda 
>divestment campaign?

Why the attention to Darfur, to the exclusion of other things, do you think?

Doug