Sep 16
20160
Imperialist Wars/Occupations, United Nations, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
AFDL Burundi Central African Republic Congo Hutu Intervention Mali Paul Kagame Psyops R2P Romeo Dallaire Sierra Leone South Sudan Tutsi
"Widespread ignorance of Canada’s chequered UN history in Africa reflects a political culture that gives politicians immense latitude to pursue self-serving policies, present them as altruistic and face few questions. Unless progressives upend this culture the loud expressions of Canadian benevolence are unlikely to align with reality."
Sep 16
20160
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Africom Central African Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Hutu Joseph Kabila Kony 2012 LRA Paul Kagame Rwanda Somalia South Sudan Tutsi Uganda UN World Food Program Yoweri Museveni
"Most Westerners are far more likely to have noticed the Western press – and Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International – shrieking that there’s another Tutsi genocide pending in Burundi, even though the violence in Burundi is nowhere near as horrific as that in Beni, and many of those assassinated in Burundi have been top officials in the Hutu-led government."