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What's at stake in the O'odham trial | Roberto Cintli Rodriguez | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

23.2.11

Picture of Roberto Cintli RodriguezWhat's at stake in the O'odham trial | Roberto Cintli Rodriguez | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: "Arizona is definitely not Egypt, where the UN has estimated that some 300 pro-democracy activists were killed … neither can Arizona be compared to Tunisia, Yemen, Algeria, Morocco, Bahrain, or especially Libya, where hundreds more have been killed in ongoing protests.

And yet, Arizona has been haemorrhaging the past two decades during which the harsh Sonoran desert has claimed several thousand lives. This has occurred as a direct result of official US policies, namely the continued militarisation of the border that results in a deathly 'funnel effect'. This is precisely what undergirds Arizona's cultural or civilisational conflict; it isn't simply about fear and hate, but of forced migrations and the borderlands as a vast desert cemetery for those whose footprints did not quite take them to the promise land."


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