Category Archives: Human Rights

The Slaughter Of Innocents

Posted on January 6, 2009 by Mash

Up to sixty members of one family in Gaza were rounded up into one house and then bombed to death by the IDF: In what the United Nations fears could be the bloodiest single attack of the Israeli assault, as many … Continue reading →

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A Small Measure Of Justice

Posted on December 18, 2008 by Mash

The most anonymous victims of murder are the victims of genocide. We count the victims in numbers – one in a hundred thousand, one in eight hundred thousand, one in three million, or one in six million. The scale of … Continue reading →

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Liz Trotta: There And Back Again

Posted on May 26, 2008 by Mash

Yesterday Liz Trotta of Fox News made a dangerous mistake on air. Today she apologized. Unlike Hillary Clinton, she did not say she "regretted" if "anyone was offended". She said she was "sorry". That is how it is done. Contrast … Continue reading →

Posted in Bangladesh, Bangladesh Liberation War, Human Rights, Politics | 11 Comments

Martin

Posted on April 4, 2008 by Mash

Martin Luther King, Jr. on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963 (transcript, audio): In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the … Continue reading →

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Dith Pran, September 27, 1942 – March 30, 2008

Posted on March 30, 2008 by Mash

Dith Pran, who survived the Killing Fields of Cambodia, has died today at the age of 65. Dith Pran was Sydney Schanberg’s photographer and journalistic partner in Cambodia. When Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge in 1975, Schanberg was … Continue reading →

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