Month: August 2009
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More on the ‘war is over’ comments
So my mate Rob Crilly has written a post I need to respond to regarding my remarks on General Agwai’s comments. Maybe I’m missing something, but I’m not sure we are substantively in quite as much disagreement as Rob would like to think. He agrees …
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Lubna: “It’s not about the trousers”
Next Friday, September 4, is the third time Lubna Hussein will be going to court for the “crime” of wearing trousers. I met with Lubna a number of times when I was in Khartoum, and will be posting some background on her in the coming …
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BBC/PRI’s “The World” gave me the opportunity to talk about my time in Darfur. If you are in the U.S. you can listen on the radio, otherwise the audio link will be up on their site in a few hours.
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Key issues from my visit to Darfur
I’m still digesting my pages and pages of notes, and ordering my thoughts, so take this as a non-exhaustive list:
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Welcome to Khartoum
Rarely have a felt such a deep-seated sense of rage, as came with flying into Khartoum by night. It was the lights – the number of them, like a fairyland. These were not the kind of piecemeal lights here and there among a few locations …
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Marc Gustafon: A Prescription for Darfur activists [Part 1]
The following is the first of a two-part post by Marc Gustafon, following an earlier series of posts from Tim Nonn, Rob Crilly and Alex Meixner, on the question of “What’s Next?” for Darfur advocacy. I have some comments on the proposal below, but will …
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Time to take a position
Wow – is really the only thing I can come up with after reading this.