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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
The Dictator Hunter, screening in NYC
The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival will present the U.S. premiere of “The Dictator Hunter,” by Dutch director Klaartje Quirijns on June 15-17. The film explores the efforts of Reed Brody of Human Rights Watch, and Souleymane Guengueng, a Chadian refugee now exiled in New York, to bring former president Hissène Habré of Chad to trial for killing thousands of his own countrymen in the 1980s.
The film will be screening at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
165 West 65th Street, upper level
Klaartje Quirijns, Reed Brody and Souleymane Guengueng will be present
· Sunday June 15: 3:30;
· Monday June 16: 6:30;
· Tuesday June 17: 1:30
More information on “The Dictator Hunter” can be found at:
www.thedictatorhunter.com
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THIS MONTH'S FEATURED BOOKS
SELF DETERMINATION AND
NATIONAL UNITY
A Challenge for Africa
Edited by Francis M. Deng
Most African countries suffer from crises of national identity that are rooted in the formation of pluralistic states, characterized by gross inequities among the component groups. Oftentimes, the state gets captured by dominant groups that then define the national identity framework on their terms to give themselves the preeminent status as the favored citizens who enjoy all the rights and dignity of citizenship.
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NEW SUDAN IN THE MAKING?Essays on a Nation in Painful Search of Itself
Edited by Francis M. Deng
“New Sudan” is a concept for radically reforming Sudan’s governance system by addressing the national identity crisis that has been responsible for the wars, the instability and the failure of the national building project that have afflicted the country since independence. The gist of the crisis is that the dominant Arab group, which is in fact an African Arab hybrid and a minority, perceives the country in its image as an Arab-Islamic nation. This inevitably discriminates against the non-Arab and non-Moslem
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