(inainte de citirea acestui post cititi, daca dispuneti de timp, cele doua posturi de mai jos: George W. Bush – Person of the year 2004 si Person of the year )

Arundhati Roy este scriitoare de origine indiana, arhitect cu diploma (Delhi School of Architecture), activista pentru pace si castigatoare a premiului Booker Prize pentru romanul The God of Small Things.

Arundhati Roy

Activitatea de activista pentru pacesi-a inceput-o cu publicarea eseului The End of Imagination, o critica dura adusa guvernului Indian, cu privirea la politica din domeniul nuclear. Au urmat o serie de eseuri impotriva proiectului de constructie a unui baraj la Narmada (India). In Mai 2004 a primit Sydney Peace Prize pentru munca ei in campanii anti-nucleare, in campanii sociale si pentru promovarea non-violentei.

“In January 2003 thousands of us from across the world gathered in Porto Alegre in Brazil and declared–reiterated–that “Another World Is Possible.” A few thousand miles north, in Washington, George W. Bush and his aides were thinking the same thing. Our project was the World Social Forum. Theirs–to further what many call the Project for the New American Century. “

“ In this new age of empire, when nothing is as it appears to be, executives of concerned companies are allowed to influence foreign policy decisions. The Center for Public Integrity in Washington found that at least nine out of the thirty members of the Bush Administration’s Defense Policy Board were connected to companies that were awarded military contracts for $76 billion between 2001 and 2002. George Shultz, former Secretary of State, was chairman of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq. He is also on the board of directors of the Bechtel Group. When asked about a conflict of interest in the case of war in Iraq he said, “I don’t know that Bechtel would particularly benefit from it. But if there’s work to be done, Bechtel is the type of company that could do it. But nobody looks at it as something you benefit from.” In April 2003, Bechtel signed a $680 million contract for reconstruction. “

“ Most nations have adequately hideous family secrets. So it isn’t often necessary for the media to lie. It’s all in the editing–what’s emphasized and what’s ignored. Say, for example, India was chosen as the target for a righteous war. The fact that about 80,000 people have been killed in Kashmir since 1989, most of them Muslim, most of them by Indian security forces (making the average death toll about 6,000 a year); the fact that in February and March of 2002 more than 2,000 Muslims were murdered on the streets of Gujarat, that women were gang-raped and children were burned alive and 150,000 driven from their homes while the police and administration watched and sometimes actively participated; the fact that no one has been punished for these crimes and the government that oversaw them was re-elected…all of this would make perfect headlines in international newspapers in the run-up to war.”

The New American Century, by Arundhati Roy
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040209&s=roy

La un forum pe teme sociale, desfasurat la Mumbai, in 16 ianuarie 2004, Arundhati Roy si-a tinut discursul (http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/569/569p12.htm) in fata a mai bine de 100.000 oameni veniti din toate colturile lumii:

“Every night outside my house in Delhi I pass this road gang of amaciated labourers digging a trench to lay fibre-optic cables to speed up our digital revolution. They work by the light of a few candles. That is what is happening in India…”

“Everywhere the poor are parked like lice into every crevice of the city. People don’t see that any more. It’s as if you shine a light very brightly in one place, the darkness deepens around it. They dont want to know what is happening. The people who benefit from this situation can’t imagine that the world is not a better place.”

Femeia care a spus toate ceastea este eroul meu.

Mai vreau sa punctez o singura persoana.
Margaret Hassan asistent social, care a participat la operatiuni umanitare in Irak, inca de la declansarea razboiului.

“Iraqis were already “living through a terrible emergency. They do not have the resources to withstand an additional crisis brought about by military action”

A fost rapita pe 19 Octombrie 2004 de catre membrii ai grupuil condus de by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Pe 6 noiembrie o caseta face publica decapritarea lui Margaret Hassan. Trupul neinsufletit, impreuna cu mainile si picioarele taiate este descoperit o saptamana mai tarziu de soldati americani. (http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/16/iraq.hassan/index.html)

CNN, 22 octombrie 2004 – CARE worker pleads for her life http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/22/iraq.kidnapping/index.html
BBC News, 20 Octombrie 2004 – Profile: Margaret Hassan http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3756552.stm

Alaturi de ele pot fi pusi sutele de tineri morti in Irak, Afganistan si Spania (atentatele de la Madrid).
Cred ca ei sunt adevaratii eroi ai lumii in care traim. Si cred ca numai noi suntem cei care putem schimba ceva in viitor. Schimbarile nu tin de regimurile politice ci de dorinta si vointa oamenilor.

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