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In memory of Vittorio Arrigon

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”Take some kittens, tiny little cats and put them in a box” said the surgeon at Gaza’s main hospital called Al Shifa, while the nurse placed a couple of big boxes on the floor right in front of us, covered in splashes of blood. “Seal up the box, then with all your might jump on top of it until you hear the little bones crunching, and the last suffocated “meow”. I’m astounded and I stare at the boxes. The doctor goes on “Now try to imagine what would happen straight after the broadcast of a scene like that, the justifiably indignant reaction of the world-wide public, the denunciations of the organisations protecting animals …” The doctor goes on with his account and I can’t take my eyes off those boxes placed by my feet. “Israel has enclosed hundreds of civilians in a school as though in a box, dozens of children, and then it squashed it with all its might using its bombs. And what were the reactions of the world? Almost nothing. You may as well be born an animal as a Palestinian. We would have been given more protection.”
At this point the doctor leans towards the box and takes the lid off in front of my eyes. Inside there are mutilated limbs, arms, legs, from the knee down or whole femurs, amputated from the people injured inside the Al Fakhura United Nations school in Jabalia. Up until now there are more than 50 victims. I pretend I have an urgent telephone call, I tell Jamal I have to go, and in reality I make for the toilet, I bend over and vomit.

Vittorio Arrigoni, Gaza, 8 January 2009
(Thanks to Alina F. for drawing this to my attention)

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Posted by: D T | April 17, 2011 03:09 PM


Since the '60's, war crimes, genocides, savagery and human rights atrocities have become common events. Media showed us man's cruel side in near and far corners of the world. We hear military leaders and politicians define invasions as "peace missions"; call civilians killed "collateral damage"; and leave unpunished, helicopter pilots merrily spraying gunfire on surrendering civilians, children and rescuers - freed from guilt. And then came Obama the dove and it was like "Happy days are here again and skies above are clear again." No more wars. No more "shock-and-awe" murderous campaigns; no more Israeli's gratuitous over-kills on Gaza; no more Darfurs; no more genocidal African wars; no more Afghanistan and Iraq. But none of that happened. Obama reneges his anti-war stances and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continue. And now Libya. Revolution. Gaddafi and his sons threaten to fill the streets with "rivers of blood," and "town to town, house to house" searches for the traitorous rebels. The revolution becomes a civil war. The rebel forces are routed and pushed east to Benghasi. Gadaffi's army is one day away from Benghasi. The West, expecting a blood bath, goes to the United Nations pleading a no-fly-zone over Libya for "humanitarian" reasons, and it's quickly granted. NATO fighter planes bomb Gadaffi's air defense system and destroy his air force. Benghasi stays in rebel hands and the citizens are spared a "blood bath" - the world thought. According to an article by Alan Kuperman, a University of Texas professor, it seems Gadaffi's military attacks avoided as much as possible hurting civilians and even offered to let rebels go free should they lay down their arms. The blood bath expected in Benghasi would never have taken place should Gedaffi's forces have taken the city and probably it would have put an end to this Libyan against Libyan slaughter. As it is, NATO's intervention generated a stalemate, killings continue, cities destroyed. Some NATO members are contemplating sending in soldiers to help the hapless rebels. Meanwhile, media shows us human bodies laid out along hospital corridors. We hear Obama switching the "humanitarian" Libyan mission to removing Gadaffi from power - something he said he would never do. Somebody should have reminded him to never say never. But I don't think it would have made any difference. Some things just don't change.

Posted by: Louis Pacella | April 17, 2011 04:28 AM


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