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

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Apr 29 15:22:15 PDT 2006


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



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