I was reading up a little more on the Biafran war on Wikipedia for this book we’ve been reading in one of my classes — Half of a Yellow Sun is an absolutely fabulous novel, by the way, that I highly encourage you to read — and you know how one thing leads to another on Wikipedia.
From there I learned that this was the event that started Médecins Sans Frontières, and then I read James Orbinski’s speech upon accepting the Nobel Peace Prize for MSF in 1999. It’s an interesting speech that differentiates between the humanitarian and the political, in what is in itself, I think, a curious mixture of the two.
I found it particularly interesting because I’ve been having conversations lately with folks about the Responsibility to Protect, and it’s fascinating to see the many different, nuanced opinions that a group of apparently similar people have…
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