Mahmood Mamdani: "Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror" Pantheon | ISBN: 0307377237 | 2009 | PDF | 406 Pages | 2,2 MB
>From the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim comes an important book, unlike any >other, that looks at the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of >Sudan and examines the world's response to that crisis. In Saviors and >Survivors, Mahmood Mamdani explains how the conflict in Darfur began as a >civil war (198789) between nomadic and peasant tribes over fertile land in >the south, triggered by a severe drought that had expanded the Sahara Desert >by more than sixty miles in forty years; how British colonial officials had >artificially tribalized Darfur, dividing its population into "native" and >"settler" tribes and creating homelands for the former at the expense of the >latter; how the war intensified in the 1990s when the Sudanese government >tried unsuccessfully to address the problem by creating homelands for tribes >without any. The involvement of opposition parties gave rise in 2003 to two >rebel movements, leading to a brutal insurgency and a horrific >counterinsurgencybut not to genocide, as the West has declared. Mamdani also >explains how the Cold War exacerbated the twenty-year civil war in neighboring >Chad, creating a confrontation between Libya's Muammar al-Qaddafi (with Soviet >support) and the Reagan administration (allied with France and Israel) that >spilled over into Darfur and militarized the fighting. By 2003, the war >involved national, regional, and global forces, including the powerful Western >lobby, who now saw it as part of the War on Terror and called for a military >invasion dressed up as "humanitarian intervention." Incisive and >authoritative, Saviors and Survivors will radically alter our understanding of >the crisis in Darfur. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZMAS23OR http://bitroad.net/download/8b690eabaf986ecedfc468b2047d42832/0307377237.rar.html
