Day for Darfur

Today, the 17th of September, over 50 cities will hold demonstrations and vigils for the people of Darfur. In Cairo there has been activities throughout the week, culminating today on AUC´s greek campus. The whole sequel of demos today started off in London at 11 A:M and continues with demos in Addis, Nairobi, Dakar New York, Montreal, Manama, Dubai,Berlin,Paris, Stockholm, Hague ,Bishkek, Seoul and Melbourne to name but a few.

About 200 000 people have died since 2004 and 2 million are displaced.

Please join in today, and please help in raising awareness in whatever way you can.

Here is the latest ICG report and likevise the latest press statement from Amnesty International on Darfur. Both of whom are among the organizers of this worldwide campaign.

This posting will be crosspublished at Fustat

17 September 2006, Global day for Darfur, Darfur, Sudan, Amnesty International , ICG

Remembering 9/11

Just a few minutes ago, the bells in New York tolled, at the exact time of the first aircraft hitting the first World Trade Center tower at 08:46 Eastern time. The names of the 2749 people who lost their lives at the World trade center is being read one after the other at ground Zero. We should all take a minute and think about them, and reflect and those onboard the four planes, and the people who lost their lives at Pentagon and in Pennsylvania and the consequenses of 9/11 worldwide that we live with everyday.

I remember that day, and how it effected me, I got a phone call from a friend after the first airplane smashed into WTC1, put on the televison set, just before the second airplane, it was unbelivable, i remained fixed to the tv set and the computer, but the feeling that came creaping was numbness, something that remained with me for almost two weeks, going on with your normal life, but living another in parallel, or rather trying to comprehend emotionally, what you somewhat grasped relatively soon intelectually. Fortunately i had no one near me, who was a victim of this mass slaughter, but not feeling and carying for the people who died, and those who would be permanently effected for life was impossible, and they all died in vain.

I have plenty to say about the political and military reactions to 9/11 and do so frequently on both of my blogs, but let´s leave that till tomorrow, today is a day of remembrence, mourning and reflection.

The photo is from today´s New York Times.

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