Savo Heleta is the author of Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia (AMACOM, March 2008). He is a DPhil student in Development Studies at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
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Hillary is a tired and sleep-deprived human being. Please forgive her “misspeaking.”
Poor Africans and their suffering simply don’t matter.
Politicians lie. That’s a fact. Sometimes they get found out.
Why would anybody care about Darfur? It’s a poor and remote region in Africa.
War can happen in your country, too — wherever you live. Any time, any place.
Many in poverty-striken Zimbabwe have nothing to lose, and fighting for their human dignity should not come as a surprise.
What about Nelson Mandela’s dream of building a society in which all South Africans would live in freedom and prosperity?
We live in a world where only self-interests of powerful countries can stop the large-scale exterminations of human beings.
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