On massacres, atrocities and holocausts
Sabra And Shatila On massacres, atrocities and holocausts by Sonja Karkar, Women for Palestine Recommended read: http://pulsemedia.org/2009/09/15/sabra-and-shatila-on-massacres-atrocities-and-holocausts/ “Had Palestinians massacred 2,000 Israelis 15 years ago, would anyone doubt that the world’s press and television would be remembering so terrible a deed this morning? Yet this week, not a single newspaper in the United States – or Britain for that matter –

When Will We Change?
We met her in one of the wards of Karachi’s Psychiatric Hospital. A quiet ward with no proper lighting, space or cleanup. Gloom pervaded and we wondered if, in such a setting, sunniness had any chance to enter the distressed hearts. Every patient in the room had an accompanying relative. Mother or sister. Except her. She was alone. You could easily tell she was overburdened with sorrow. Her eyes welled up with tears when she started telling us her story and she wept when she mentioned her children. “My husband took away my children.” she told us. “He denied being the father of my newborn. He accused me of cheating him. He divorced me, killed my new born by throw