Darfur: Where celebrities love to tread
Submitted by CheetahBlogger on February 9, 2010 – 3:41 pmNo Comment
Celebrities like Mia Farrow and George Clooney may have done more to prolong the suffering of Darfur than resolve the crisis in Sudan’s war-torn region, a new book argues.
“The Save Darfur movement with its celebrity supporters came down very clearly on one particular side of the debate,” says Rob Crilly, author of Saving Darfur, Everyone’s Favourite African War.
“This very simple straight-forward narrative which demanded our intervention was the only view being heard,” he told the BBC.
