Wednesday, May 17, 2006
uNight takes on Hitchens on HuffPo - READ THE POST
uNight’s first blog post is now up on the Huffington Post, check it out.


Genocide in Uganda: The African Nightmare Christopher Hitchens Missed

In the January 2006 edition of Vanity Fair, in a piece titled "Childhood's End," Christopher Hitchens proclaims to expose the cynical politics behind one of Africa's greatest nightmares: the twenty-year war in northern Uganda. For those of us dedicated to bringing the humanitarian catastrophe in northern Uganda to the attention of the international community, any exposure of the conflict by a high-profile journalist such as Hitchens is welcome. But Hitchens's account of the two-decade-long war is dangerously misleading ...Read on and contribute to the debate.



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