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 Re: العزيزة امانى السنى (Re: Roada)
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Background to BSPAC and ESPAC - by Damien Lewis
(Damien Lewis is a feeelance documentary maker and journalist who has made several films in Sudan.)
Both ESPAC and BSPAC are based at the same central London address. It has been difficult to ascertain exactly who funds Mr. Hoile and these two organisations. Mr Hoile states only that they receive "private funding". Most observers conclude it is the Government of Sudan and wealthy individuals associated with that regime. As Lord Avebury, Chairman of the Parliamentary Human Rights Group, states in a House of Lords debate (8th December, 199 , "It is believed Mr. Hoile receives all his money from the Sudanese Government. I hope that those who receive his literature will take careful note of that".
Mr. Hoile has criticised non-Governmental and Governmental groups for their work on Sudan. The American Antislavery Group is accused of being; "Self-serving propagandists". The US Commission on International Religious Freedom in Sudan is accused of being, "Partisan and Hypocritical". The International Crisis Group, and the former Clinton Administration Africa Director, John Prendergast, are accused of, "a self-serving inability to differentiate between fact and misinformation". The Clinton Administration is accused of the, "Obstruction of Peace in Sudan". The Bush Administration is accused of; "Encouraging War and Hindering Peace". The United States' Congress is accused of being: "Poorly Informed and Confrontational".
ESPAC has written an essay on the BBC entitled, "A Case Study in Prejudice and Poor Reporting" and another called "Irresponsible Journalism". On Channel 4 Television, ESPAC has written an essay entitled; "Propaganda Journalism and Channel 4 TV in Britain". ESPAC writes of the Washington Post; "Irresponsible, Inaccurate and Inept". ESPAC writes of the New York Times under a heading; "A Study in Poor Journalism". On the London Observer newspaper, ESPAC writes of; "Questionable Sources, Questionable Journalism". On the Canadian Globe and Mail, ESPAC has issued a report entitled; "Turning a Blind Eye to War Crimes". Of London's Daily Telegraph, ESPAC writes of "Taking Sides in Sudan" and "Islamophobia, Poor Journalism or Bad Judgement?" The Sun Media group of Canada is presented under a document entitled, "Misreporting Sudan".
David Hoile's own background has been reported widely over the years. He became Vice-President of the extreme right-wing Federation of Conservative Students in the 1980s. In 1985 he was exposed in the National Student magazine for wearing a badge bearing the slogan, "Hang Nelson Mandela". (This fact was reported again in the Guardian newspaper in 2001.) In 1985, he was also reported in the National Student magazine as claiming to have been a member of Rhodesia's security forces, and he is written about and pictured in London's Time Out magazine on patrol with the extreme right wing Contra rebels in Nicaragua. In that Contra article, Time Out reports; "'It was a very enjoyable experience', said ex-white Rhodesian soldier Hoile, who carried a Kalashnikov automatic rifle with him on patrol".
The credibility of David Hoile's recent comments on behalf of the European Sudanese Public Affairs Council should be viewed in light of the above.
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Reviews and newspaper references to David Hoile
From the Journal of Southern African Studies, p530, (1996): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Review by Alex Vines, King's College, University of London - of David Hoile's book, "Mozambique, Resistance and Freedom: A Case for Reassessment", published by the Mozambique Institute, London 1994.
David Hoile is a legacy of the Cold War. Schooled in Rhodesia, he left at independence for Britain and has since specialised in right-wing causes: the Contras in Nicaragua; UNITA in Angola; Renamo in Mozambique and Inkatha in South Africa. In 1996 he moved north, on to Sudan issues, the new frontier for under-employed Cold War warriors.
Prior to crusading for these causes, he was a senior member of the Federation of Conservative Students in Britain until it was abolished for its extreme activities by Conservative Party Central Office.
Godfather to his child is ex-Rhodesian Special Air Service and ex-South African Special Force officer, Garth Barrett. Barret specialised in covert military operations inside Mozambique for many years in support of Renamo.
Hoile became involved seriously with Mozambican issues in 1989 when he published a pro-Renamo book (Mozambique: A Nation in Crisis - Claridge Press, London 1989). His first direct contact with Renamo was in September 1990 and in mid-1991, with funds provided by British businessman Robin Birley (stepson to millionaire Sir James Goldsmith).
Hoile launched the Mozambique Institute, using a commercial answering service in London as it address. Birley's sponsorship of the Mozambique Institute later developed commercial spin-offs through the Boston-based Rovuma Rio company which has worked timber concessions in Renamo areas.
Hoile never dared to contradict the Renamo official line, and his book reflects this fact.
Much of what Hoile denies [actually] occurred: from Renamo's many human rights abuses, to its extensive use of child soldiers. In 1993-4, travels by this reviewer in Renamo dominated zones confirmed that with no doubt. UN agencies and NGOs working in Renamo administered areas also confirm this view.
What was widely underestimated was the localised nature of Mozambican politics and the fact that brutal military efforts against Renamo by Frelimo had been more widespread.
Canadian anthropologist Otto Roesch is described by Hoile as a "Frelimo apologist" (p.56) when, in fact, it was this academic, through his published field work in central Mozambique, who showed that support for Renamo was variable and localised, and that national generalisations were difficult.
Roesch found in central Mozambique a strong following for Renamo compared with his original fieldwork in Gaza which showed the opposite.
(Roesch, Otto: `Mozambique Unravels? The retreat to tradition', Southern Africa Report May 1992; `Renamo and the Peasantry in Southern Mozambique: a view from Gaza province', Canadian Journal of African Studies 26,3).
The October 1994 multiparty election results, with Renamo's strong following in five provinces, demonstrated clearly this complex patch-work response.
David Hoile was in a unique position in 1990-92 to travel and report on what life was actually like in Renamo controlled areas. He could have furthered international understanding of Renamo in a crucial period when such information was at a premium. He failed to do this, preferring to act as an unquestioning propagandist for Renamo. "Mozambique, Resistance and Freedom" is an epitaph to a missed opportunity.
Alex Vines
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| العزيزة امانى السنى | bayan | 09-06-04, 09:01 AM |
| Re: العزيزة امانى السنى | bayan | 09-06-04, 09:02 AM |
| Re: العزيزة امانى السنى | Amani Alsunni | 09-06-04, 09:37 AM |
| Re: العزيزة امانى السنى | Amani Alsunni | 09-06-04, 09:37 AM |
| Re: العزيزة امانى السنى | Roada | 09-06-04, 09:54 AM |
| Re: العزيزة امانى السنى | Amani Alsunni | 09-06-04, 09:57 AM |
| Re: العزيزة امانى السنى | مراويد | 09-06-04, 10:00 AM |
| Re: العزيزة امانى السنى | Roada | 09-06-04, 10:10 AM |
| Re: العزيزة امانى السنى | Roada | 09-06-04, 10:22 AM |
| Re: العزيزة امانى السنى | Amani Alsunni | 09-06-04, 10:48 AM |
| Re: العزيزة امانى السنى | nour tawir | 09-06-04, 10:55 AM |
| Re: العزيزة امانى السنى | Amani Alsunni | 09-06-04, 11:11 AM |
| Re: العزيزة امانى السنى | Roada | 09-06-04, 11:32 AM |
| Re: العزيزة امانى السنى | nour tawir | 09-06-04, 12:16 PM |
| Hoile the PR man for the NIF and his lies | Zaki | 09-06-04, 11:47 AM |
| Re: Hoile the PR man for the NIF and his lies | nour tawir | 09-06-04, 01:22 PM |
| Re: العزيزة امانى السنى | Roada | 09-06-04, 11:44 AM |
| Re: العزيزة امانى السنى | Roada | 09-06-04, 11:46 AM |
| Re: العزيزة امانى السنى | Roada | 09-06-04, 11:47 AM |
| Re: العزيزة امانى السنى | Roada | 09-06-04, 11:50 AM |
| Re: العزيزة امانى السنى | Roada | 09-06-04, 11:53 AM |
| Re: العزيزة امانى السنى | bayan | 09-06-04, 05:33 PM |
| Re: العزيزة امانى السنى | Deng | 09-06-04, 08:16 PM |
| Re: العزيزة امانى السنى | bayan | 09-06-04, 08:58 PM |
| الحقيقة المرة | bayan | 09-08-04, 07:25 PM |
| Re: العزيزة امانى السنى | Roada | 09-08-04, 07:51 PM |
| Re: العزيزة امانى السنى | bayan | 09-08-04, 08:15 PM |
| Re: العزيزة امانى السنى | Roada | 09-08-04, 08:49 PM |
| Re: العزيزة امانى السنى | bayan | 09-08-04, 10:09 PM |
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