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 The Agenda - Gerald Caplan In Congo Dvdrip Xvid - DiVERSiTY English | AVI | Mpeg4 | 640x464 | 00:57:00 | 29.970 fps 844 kbps | MP3 128 kbps 48 KHz | 343 MB Genre: Documentary How do we account for the many crises that Africa constantly faces? I've spent much of my life wrestling with that question and I attempt an answer in my new little book called The Betrayal of Africa. The book led to a 10 or 12 minute interview on CBC Radio's The Current recently, which in turn led to an entirely unexpected Citizen editorial ("Guilty indulgences," April 29). The writer generously called my "passion for peace and justice admirable," but criticized me for being too tough on the West's role in Africa and "conspicuously gentle on China." Gentle on China? The editorial itself cites a couple of my comments on China, including this one: "China's disdain for human rights and democracy is a glaring contradiction in the China-Africa equation that may someday have to be resolved." What's soft about that? But it's true that I'm unrelentingly critical of the role of western countries in Africa. That means all the old imperial masters — Britain, France, Germany, Portugal and Belgium — joined in the post-colonial period by the United States. China is a relative newcomer when it comes to doing harm to Africans. Western nations have a 550-year head start: the slave trade; the violence, authoritarianism and racism of colonialism; the post-colonial support by the U.S., France and Britain of dozens of Africa's worst tyrants and psychopaths; western backing for decades of the apartheid government of South Africa; the direct role of westerners in setting the stage for the genocide in Rwanda; the enabling of mass corruption through sophisticated networks of banks and tax havens; the imposition of financial and economic policies that failed to increase growth while vastly increasing inequality — the list of destructive western interventions over many decades is very very long and continues to this moment. As I write, the U.S. is actively engaged with the Sudan government. But decidedly not for the reason we'd all expect. On the contrary. There is a close, well-documented working relationship between the intelligence and security services of the U.S. and Sudan related to counter-terrorism, even while George W. Bush condemns the Sudanese government for perpetrating genocide in Darfur. Has the Citizen reported this? The Citizen accuses me of being hypocritical because I'd be enraged if the U.S. sent weapons to Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe. In fact the United States sends weapons to just about every African country and has done so for many decades. Take the deadly wars of the Congo that have caused as many as five million deaths in the past decade. This conflict was enabled by American coddling of the tyrant Mobutu as he hollowed out his own country, and by the French army allowing Rwanda's armed genocidaires to escape into Congo as the 1994 genocide was ending. Nine national armies were involved in "Africa's First World War," and the U.S. was supplying arms to eight of them. One was Mr. Mugabe's. But Mugabes don't materialize out of thin air. For 90 years Britain allowed a tiny minority of white racists to steal Zimbabweans' lands and treat them like dirt. I lived there; I saw it. Old white Rhodesia was a British colony before it became Zimbabwe. Britain had an obligation to end this travesty. It refused, leading to the civil war that killed tens of thousands and produced Mr. Mugabe. Few now remember that until Mr. Mugabe began attacking white farmers a few years go, he was considered a good African leader by the west. For 20 previous years he had been embraced as good old Bob, even though as president he terrorized his opponents and sent his army to slaughter tens of thousands of ordinary Zimbabweans he alleged were disloyal. None of that mattered a hoot to the west so long as he allowed the few whites to continue their idyllic existence. Here's my analysis after a lifetime of working in and analyzing Africa: Western governments, financial institutions and corporations on the one hand, and the worst of Africa's leaders on the other, have both operated, often in collusion, to benefit themselves at the expense of Africans. I have always been equally appalled by both sides. Zimbabwe is a perfect example. Despite the massive contribution of the west to the ills of Africa — dictators, conflicts, poverty, corruption, AIDS (through high drug prices) — most westerners believe that we rich whites are actually Africa's solution, not its problem. We feel occasional guilt, perhaps, that we haven't yet saved Africans from themselves. But the fact is we're responsible for much of the trouble. For centuries far more resources have drained out of Africa to the west than the west has contributed or invested in the continent. Heaven knows many African leaders have much to repent for. But few of them could have caused the damage they did without western co-operation and complicity. Gerald Caplan has served as a consultant to various UN agencies and to the African Union. Among his many writings on Africa are Rwanda; The Preventable Genocide, and his new book, The Betrayal of Africa.  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