Democracy Now!-Politics of Naming Genocide & Civil War 3of3

President Bush has ordered new sanctions to be placed on the Sudanese government for its role in the violence in Darfur. Last week's announcement blocks thirty-one companies tied to the Sudanese government from using the US banking system.
The sanctions were seen as a victory for the Save Darfur Coalition, a US group leading a vocal campaign pressuring the White House to take action. But the New York Times reported Saturday some of Save Darfur's public efforts have angered aid groups working on the ground in Sudan. The aid groups say Save Darfur's call for imposing a no-flight zone could lead to a halt in aid flights and put their workers at risk. Aid groups have also criticized Save Darfur for not spending its multi-million dollar budget on aid to Darfur's refugees.
Mahmood Mamdani is one of the world's most prominent Africa scholars. Earlier this year, he wrote a major piece for the London Review of Books called "The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency." He was born in Uganda and now splits his time between Uganda and New York, where he is a professor at Columbia University. Mahmood Mamdani was interviewed by award-winning journalist, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! on Friday. She began by asking him about the name of his article, "The Politics of Naming."
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/04/1334230

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[Africanmistress83]

Great information. Mahmood Mamdani is brilliant.

[SuperEntrepreneur]

That professor is absolutely right when he said that the history of state sponsored terrorism in that part of Africa goes back to when the USA provided a political umbrella to apartheid South Africa to create a terrorist organisation in Mozambique.

[WaarOmeter]

Indeed dem now is probably my favorite programme and yes the truth is stranger than fiction.

"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists." - J. Edgar Hoover

Go to my tube for tons of info on monstrous stuff. Each month a new subject.

[seef0]

Thanks for posting. The truth is sometime stranger than fiction. Why are we not hearing more about the Congo - is it the coltan?

[lonelygirlI5]

Thanks to John Negroponte and the School Of Americas, death squads are turning up almost everywhere.