Authors: Mickey Huff
ANN GARRISON
writes for the San Francisco Bay View, Global Research,
AfrobeatRadio.net
and other publications, and produces radio for KPFA Weekend News and
WBAI AfrobeatRadio. She is working on a book titled “Sodomy and Hypocrisy,” about American evangelicals, LGBT persecution, war crimes, and sexual atrocities in Africa.
1
. “General Ward on AFRICOM,” YouTube video, 1:30, posted by “DODvClips,” October 3, 2008,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzoeAfgkIjk
; US Africa Comman homepage, accessed June 12, 2011,
http://www.africaom.mil/#
; “AFRICOM: BUSHES PLOT AGAINST AFRICA,” YouTube video, 4:03, posted by “grannypeacebrigade,” April 8, 2008,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzdF4hA4XfY&feature=related
; “Cynthia McKinney – Oppose Africom,” YouTube video, 0:54, posted by “RunCynthiaRun,” October 8, 2008,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDGOMY4gNVQ&feature=related
; Major R. A. Hagerman, “US Reliance on Africa for Strategic Minerals,” Global Security, April 6, 1984,
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1984/HRA.htm
.
2
. Denis Tougas, “Canada in Africa: The Mining Superpower,”
Pambazuka News
, November 20, 2008,
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/52095
.
3
. Scott B. Lanesky, “How Foreign Aid Serves the National Interest,”
Buffalo News
, March 16, 2003, reproduced at
http://www.cfr.org/democracy-and-human-rights/foreign-aid-serves-national-interest/p5711
.
4
. “US Presidents Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief,” January 20, 2009,
http://2006-2009.pepfar.gov/countries/c19418.htm
.
5
. “RESIST AFRICOM,” YouTube video, 8:13, posted by “elliejoy11,” October 28, 2008,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRCZk8mM1EU
.
6
. “Daily Roundup,”
Somalia Report
, April 30, 2011,
http://www.somaliareport.com/index.php/post/636
; Thomas C. Mountain, “UN Cuts Food, Expands War in Somalia,” May 28, 2011, transcript,
AfrobeatRadio.net
,
http://afrobeatradio.net/2011/06/07/un-food-cuts-and-expanded-war-in-somalia-continues/
.
7
. Jay Rey, “UB grad is named prime minister of Somalia,”
Buffalo News
, October 15, 2010,
http://www.buffalonews.com/city/article220990.ece
.
8
. Mohamed A. Mohamed, “US STRATEGIC INTEREST IN SOMALIA: From Cold War Era to War on Terror,” Horseed Media, June 1, 2009,
http://horseedmedia.net/wpcontent/uploads/2010/10/US_STRATEGIC_INTEREST_IN_SOMALIA.pdf
.
9
. Thomas Mountain, “UN Cuts Food Aid, Expands War in Somalia,”
Counterpunch
, May 25, 2011,
http://www.counterpunch.org/mountain05252011.html
.
10
. Mountain and Ann Garrison, “Somalia: a UN Managed Catastrophe,” Global Research, June 5, 2011,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25130
.
11
. Mountain, “UN Food Cuts And Expanded War In Somalia Continues,”
AfrobeatRadio.net
, June 7th, 2011,
http://afrobeatradio.net/2011/06/07/un-food-cuts-and-expanded-war-in-somalia-continues/
; Michael Maren, “The Might Interview: The Lie of Foreign and International Charity,”
Nomadnet
,
http://mmaren.wordpress.com/reviews/michael-maren-the-might-interview/
; Maren,
The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity
(New York: The Free Press, 1997); Mountain, “UN Food Cuts Continues.”
12
. Report of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, April 12, 2001,
http://www.friendsofthecongo.org/pdf/un_report_apr_01.pdf
; Final Report of the panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, October 15, 2002,
http://www.friendsofthecongo.org/pdf/third_panel_report_october2002.pdf
; Chairman of the Panel
of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Secretary-General, October 15, 2003,
http://www.friendsofthecongo.org/pdf/un_report_oct_03.pdf
; Special Rapporteur Roberto Garretón, United Nations Commission Resolution 1998/61 “Question of the Violation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in any Part of the World,” February 8, 1999,
http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/8e3dbacbae51ce60802567460034073d?OpenDocument
; Gerard Prunier,
Africa’s World War: Congo, The Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009); Timothy Longman,
Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010); Anthony Court, “Book Review,”
Oxford Journals, Humanities Holocaust and Genocide Studies
24, no. 23 (2010): 493–498; “Cobalt: Policy Options for a Strategic Mineral,” Congressional Budget Office, September 1982,
http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=5126&type=0
; Garrison, “The Holocasut in D.R. Congo: War for the Sake of War Itself,”
San Francisco Bay View
, March 11, 2009,
http://sfbayview.com/2009/the-african-holocaust-in-dr-congo-war-for-the-sake-of-war-itself/
.
13
. Michel Chossudovsky, “The US was Behind the Rwanda Genocide: Rwanda: Installing a Protectorate in Central Africa,” Global Research, May 8, 2003,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO305A.html
; Keith Harmon Snow, “The US Sponsored ‘Rwanda Genocide’ and Its Aftermath,” Global Research, April 12, 2008,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8657
; Andrew Gavin Marshall, “Congo Research Wars,” Global Research, March 1, 2008,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8310
.
14
. Max Delany, “Why 10,000 Ugandans are eagerly serving in Iraq,”
Christian Science Monitor
, March 6, 2009,
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2009/0306/p04s02-woaf.html
; Garrison, “Just What Haiti Doesn’t Need: Rwandan Police,”
San Franciso Bay View
, March 12, 2010,
http://sfbayview.com/2010/just-what-haiti-needs-rwandan-police/
; Jean Ndayisaba, “ ‘US Military Not Intending to Control Africa’—Says Army Chief,” Rwanda News Agency, June 14, 2001,
http://www.rnanews.com/archives/3580-us-military-not-intending-to-control-africa-says-army-chief-
; Beth Tuckey, “AFRICOM’s Uganda Blunder,”
Foreign Policy in Focus
, April 20, 2009,
http://www.fpif.org/articles/africoms_ugandan_blunder
; “Ward Press Conference in Rwanda,” US Africa Command, April 22, 2008,
http://www.africom.mil/getArticle.asp?art=3011
; “Kagame for Lunch with Obama,” Rwanda News Agency, September 21, 2009,
http://www.rnanews.com/politics/1981-kagame-for-lunch-with-obama-
; Snow, “Proxy Wars in Central Africa? Profits, Propaganda, and Luxury Goods for the West Pacification, Rape and Slavery for the Rest,”
World War 4 Report: Deconstructing the War on Terrorism
, July 18, 2010,
http://ww4report.com/static/proxy.html
; “Outsourcing US Wars: Ugandans in Iraq,” YouTube video, 5:01, posted by “AnnieGetYourGang,” June 2, 2011,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o532plca9mA
; Mountain, “UN Food Cuts,” 2011.
15
. “DRC: Mapping Human Rights Violations 1993–2003,” Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Accessed June 12, 2011,
http://www.ohchr.org/en/Countries/AfricaRegion/Pages/RDCProjetMapping.aspx
; “IRC Study Shows Congo’s Neglected Crisis Leaves 5.4 Million Dead; Peace Deal in N. Kivu, Increased Aid Critical to Reducing Death Toll,” International Rescue Committee, January 22,
2008,
http://www.rescue.org/news/irc-study-shows-congos-neglected-crisis-leaves-54-million-dead-peace-deal-n-kivu-increased-aid—4331
; “Six Million Dead in Congo’s War,” Caritas Internationalis, Accessed June 12, 2011,
http://www.caritas.org/activities/emergencies/SixMillionDeadInCongoWar.html
.
16
. “The Leaked UN Report The Contradiction of General Paul
Kagame.flv
,” YouTube video, 9:07, posted by “AnnieGetYourGang,” June 3, 2011, http://youtube/A2yYkdDHfyY.
17
. “Democratic Republic of the Congo 1993–2003 UN Mapping Report,” Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Accessed March 18, 2011,
http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/ZR/FS-2_Crimes_Final.pdf
.
18
. “Candles for Rwanda,” YouTube video, 1:03, posted by “NancyPelosi,” April 7, 2009,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT_4CpAvEUI
; Aimable Mugara, “Rwanda Circa 1994 is No Nazi Germany,”
Opednews.com
, June 6, 2010,
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Rwanda-circa-1994-is-no-Na-by-Aimable-100602-508.html
; Mark Doyle, “Rwanda: ‘The Israel of Africa,’ ” BBC News, January 20, 2009,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7839922.stm
.
19
. Ann Garrison, “ICTR Laywers: No Justice for Congo From Independent Courts,”
San Francisco Bay View
, October 11, 2009,
http://sfbayview.com/2010/ictr-lawyers-no-justice-for-congo-from-courts
; Mugara, “Bill Clinton, the Genocider Who Just Might Get Away,”
San Francisco Bay View
, November 3, 2010,
http://sfbayview.com/2010/bill-clinton-the-genocider-who-just-might-get-away/
; Christopher Black, “The Rwandan Patriotic Front’s Bloody Record and the History of UN Cover-ups,” Monthly
Review Magazine
, December 9, 2010,
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/black120910.html
.
20
. “Uganda: Ban Ki-Moon Meets Kagame Over Leaked Genocide Report,”
Monitor
, September 9, 2010,
http://allafrica.com/stories/201009090953.html
; “Rwanda to Keep its Peacemakers in Place,” CNN, September 27, 2010,
http://articles.cnn.com/2010-09-27/world/un.rwanda_1_hutus-tutsis-rwandan-army?_s=PM:WORLD
; Xan Rice, “Uganda Rejects UN Report on War Crimes in Congo,”
Guardian
, October 1, 2010,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2010/oct/01/uganda-un-war-crimes-congo
; Jeffrey Gettleman, “Uganda: A Threat to Pull Peacekeepers,”
New York Times
, October 1, 2010,
http://www.nytimes.com/
2010/10/01/world/africa/01briefs-Uganda.html
.
21
. Philip J. Crowley, “UN Mapping Report on Violations of Human Rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,” Bureau of Public Affairs, October 1, 2010,
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/10/148549.htm
.
22
. Kofi A. Annan, “Report of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo,” April 12, 2001,
http://www.friendsofthecongo.org/pdf/un_report_apr_01.pdf
.
23
. “Mass Atrocity Response Operations: A Military Planning Handbook,” Harvard Kennedy School of Government, 2010,
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/cchrp/maro/pdf/MARO_Handbook_v9.pdf
.
24
. “Air Force is Through with Predator Drones,”
Wired
, December 14, 2010,
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/12/air-force-is-through-with-predator-drones/
.
25
. “Pentagon: Drones Can Stop the Next Darfur,”
Wired
, February 10, 2011,
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/02/drones-vs-darfur/
.
26
.
Mark Hackett, “Can Predator Drones Stop the Next Darfur?”
Operation Broken Silence
, February 11, 2011,
http://www.operationbrokensilence.org/?p=5658
.
27
. Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Still Crusading, but Now on the Inside,”
New York Times
, March 30, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/30/world/30power.htm
; Clifford H. Bernath, “Mass Atrocity Prevention and Response and the US Government,” presentation at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, March 31, 2011,
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/cchrp/maro/events/2011/month03/Bernath_31.php
.
28
. Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, “The Politics of Genocide,”
Monthly Review
, June 11, 2011,
http://monthlyreview.org/press/books/pb2129/
.
29
. Herman, “Samantha Power, Libya, and Selective Memory of Genocide,”
Institute for Public Accuracy
, May 25, 2011,
http://www.accuracy.org/samantha-power-libya-and-selective-memory-of-genocide/
.
30
. Samantha Power, “Bystanders to Genocide,”
Atlantic
, September 2001,
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/09/bystanders-to-genocide/4571/
.
31
. Bernath, “Mass Atrocity Response Operations,” 6.
32
. Miller McCune, “What Really Happened in Rwanda,”
Miller-McCune
, October 9, 2009,
http://www.miller-mccune.com/politics/what-really-happened-in-rwanda-3432/
33
. Professor Allan Stam, “Understanding the Rwanda Genocide,” February 2009, video, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Video Library, University of Michigan,
http://www.fordschool.umich.edu/video/2009/44939157001/
.
34
. Keith Harmon Snow,
Conscious Being Alliance
, blog,
http://www.consdousbeingalliance.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?search=Rwanda&IncludeBlogs
=1
.
35
. Peter Erlinder, “The UN Security Council Ad Hoc Rwanda Tribunal—International Justice or Judicially Constructed ‘Victor’s Impunity?’ ”
De Paul Journal for Social Justice
4, no. 1 (2010).
36
. Garrison, “Rwanda: Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza on Trial,”
KPFA Radio
and
San Francisco Bay View
, May 15, 2011,
http://sfbayview.com/2011/rwanda-victoire-ingabire-umuhoza-on-trial/
.
37
. Gettleman, “Clinton Presents Plan to Fight Sexual Violence in Congo,”
New York Times
, August 1, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/world/africa/12diplo.html
.