June 30, 2007
Farce Majeure in Darfur
When we first arrived in Ethiopia, some official body handed us a report and a CD-Rom on the true story behind the Ethio-Eritrean border dispute. I can't remember the details now. Let's just say Eritrea did not emerge blameless.
Now that we're in Khartoum, I've just received a copy of Darfur in Perspective by Dr David Hoile, a plush paperback published by the European-Sudanese Public Affairs Council.
Dr Hoile's past publications include Images of Sudan: Case Studies in Propaganda and Misrepresentation (2003) and Farce Majeure: The Clinton Administration's Sudan Policy 1993-2000 (2000).
According to the cover blurb, this latest work sets out to expose:
the disinformation and confusion about Darfur. This is the first book to cut through the many media myths about the conflict. It analyses the causes and course of the war, and challenges the accusations of genocide, racism and marginalisation made against the government of Sudan.
I'll report back when I've finished it.
Posted by aheavens at June 30, 2007 6:20 AM