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Joel Whitney is a founding editor of Guernica: A Magazine of Art and Politics. In 2003, he was awarded a Discovery/The Nation Prize by the 92nd Street Y and The Nation for his poetry. Co-founder of Guernica |
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 My Guantánamo Diary by Mahvish Khan. Imagine that a young idealistic American who happened to speak Pashto had been let inside Guantánamo to interview prisoners? Mahvish Khan was. This Pashtun-American, working as a legal aide, heard story after story of American torture. The problem with much of the current debate on torture is we seem to have reduced it to waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and uncomfortable positions and temperatures. All of these are gruesome. But in My Guantánamo Diary out in paperback this month, it becomes clear that Americans soldiers also resorted to rape, and often tortured prisoners to death. This is what the U.S. condemns countries like Burma for. |
Josh-Narins
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The Pashto-language community is the largest on Earth without its own country, followed closely by the Kurds.
The Tamil, Basque and Uighur also speak languages entirely unrelated to the governments they operate under.
http://www.LanguageAndPeace.com
That said, the April, 2004 assault on Fallujah was far more of a war crime than all the torture.
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