Savo Heleta's Blog
January 4, 2011
South Sudan: Challenges Facing the New Country
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South Sudan: Challenges Facing the New Country
October 12, 2010
Columbus Day is just like a Hitler Day
It would be absolutelly disgusting and wrong in every way possible if any country in the world today had a Hitler day to "celebrate" his "accomplishments."
The United States, however, still honors Christopher Columbus, the man who "opened the Atlantic slave trade and launched one of the greatest waves of genocide known in history," with a federal holiday.-
October 8, 2010
Hillary [phony pathological liar] Clinton is going back to Bosnia
The pathological liar who in 2008 made up a story about snipers firing at her while visiting Bosnia in 1996 is coming back to the Balkans in mid-October.
[image error]One has to wonder what stories about this new trip will this phony pathological liar come up with when the time comes to campaign for re-election?!
Perhaps a story about rape...
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September 20, 2010
Bombs over Khartoum
The notion of South Sudanese airplanes bombing Khartoum could make the regime of Omar al Bashir think twice before sending forces and planes to destroy the south and its population in the aftermath of the 2011 referendum on self-determination.
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It is very likely that the GOSS leadership is hoping that the Khartoum regime will take notice of their purchase of hundreds of tanks, artillery and new helicopters and fighter jets, coupled with years of extensive training for the South...
May 26, 2010
South Sudan Executive Leadership Program [Video]
In this video, the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Business School from Port Elizabeth, South Africa, reflects on the importance of the South Sudan Executive Leadership Program and the opportunity to shape the future of the region left in ruins by one of Africa's longest civil wars.
Find out more at http://www.sselp.org/
March 13, 2010
Interview: Not My Turn to Die
Christine Bednarz who blogs at Journey East conducted an interview with me about my book, "Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia" (March 2008, AMACOM Books, New York).
Christine writes:
Growing up in Goražde, Bosnia, Savo Heleta did not think about ethnicity, race or religion. Everyone knew one other in the small peaceful city, his best friend was Muslim, and most considered themselves “Yugoslav.”
In Not My Turn to Die, Heleta describes (perhaps a bit too simply...
February 17, 2010
Book Review - Not My Turn to Die
Published in Teaching Sociology, 2010, 38(1)
Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia is "straightforward, easy to read, and very intriguing. Most of my students finish the book within two days. The first-person account gives the students a more concrete understanding of the social construction of ethnicity. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in adding a global perspective to undergraduate teachi...
February 11, 2010
Elections in Sudan: Chaos Before Stability
In this paper, Savo Heleta argues that in the present situation, with so many issues unresolved around the country, Sudan's complicated national elections would not lead to pluralism and democracy but rather to instability, further polarization, and post-election chaos. As currently planned, the elections would be a logistical nightmare for any country, let ...
November 19, 2009
South Sudan: Remember the Past While Deciding the Future in 2011
Over the next two years, and especially on the day when they cast their vote during the 2011 referendum on self-determination, the people of South Sudan need to remember the past while deciding . . . more
September 28, 2009
Afghan war is a war of choice, not a war of necessity
Richard Haass, US Foreign Policy expert and the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, says the war in Afghanistan is no longer a war of necessity but rather a war of choice. In an interview . . . more
