The recent conflict between India and Pakistan follows decades of tension, periodically erupting into violence, over the disputed status of Kashmir.
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Robert Fisk: Nine Years, Two Wars, Hundreds of Thousands Dead – and Nothing Learnt
Did 9/11 make us all mad? Our memorial to the innocents who died nine years ago has been a holocaust of fire and blood . . .Saturday, 11 September 2010Did 9/11 make us all go mad? How fitting, in a weird, crazed way, that the apotheosis of that firestorm nine years...
Is the Darfur Advocacy Community’s “Raison d’être to be Sought in the War on Terror”? No.
My aim in this piece is to focus on Mamdani’s major thesis, examining several of his supporting arguments in turn. I will thus try to avoid contesting Mamdani’s facts unto themselves (as many other contributors have already done this already), except where they are...
Save Darfur’: Emancipatory American Exceptionalism?
Several contributors to this blog have disputed Mahmood Mamdani’s arguments about the links between ‘Save Darfur’ (in the wider sense of the mass movement) and the George W. Bush Administration’s ‘global war on terror,’ or conversely supported them. I think there is...
Interview: Mahmood Mamdani on Darfur
June 2009 In his new book Mahmood Mamdani puts the war in Darfur in historical context and challenges the Save Darfur Coalition's characterisation of the conflict and its call for international intervention. He talks to Charlie Kimber You reject the label genocide and...
Professor and Provocateur: Factual Inaccuracies Undermine Mamdani’s thesis
Saviors and Survivors Making Sense of Darfur: Saviors and Survivors by Mahmood Mamdani is a book that reads as having been written by two different authors. Let’s called them, Mamdani the Professor, and Mamdani the Provocateur. The Professor is nuanced and factual....