Philippe Diaz's documentary "The Empire in Africa" opens at NYC, Los Angeles and Madison, Wisconsin theaters this Friday. It is not to be missed. Focused on the bloody civil war in Sierra Leone, it is the perfect rejoinder to those who believe that the West has some kind of obligation to provide law and order through a "humanitarian" military intervention of the sort that NY Timesman Nicholas Kristof contributor calls for in Darfur or that Harvard professor called for in Rwanda. Using interviews with the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), a rebel group widely portrayed as the Sierra Leone equivalent of the Janjaweed in Darfur, and the supporters of military intervention against them, Diaz reveals that such a rescue mission had more to do with rescuing profits in the diamond mines that it ever did with rescuing lives.
Full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2006/12/06/the-empire-in-africa/ -- www.marxmail.org
