[Editor's Note:This is part II of  the article "Security Council Extends Joint UN-AU Darfur Mission Despite Controversy"]

Mamdani on Darfur

In an article he wrote for the London Review of Books in 2007, Columbia Professor Mahmood Mamdani explains the background of the fighting in Darfur and his view that there is the need for a political settlement to the conflict in Darfur to end the suffering of civilians.

Mamdani describes the role played by the U.S. government, the U.S. press and  some U.S. advocacy organizations to develop what he terms “the reduction of the complex political context to a morality tale….” (8)

Mamdani proposes that there has been a widespread and well funded campaign to support U.S. government sanctions against Sudan and the inaccurate labeling of… weiter lesen