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  • Actress in Guantanamo protest

    06/18/2004 9:41:48 PM PDT · by bd476 · 92 replies · 522+ views
    The Daily Telegraph (Australia) ^ | June 19, 2004 | From correspondents in Venissieux, France
    "BRITISH actress Vanessa Redgrave, who campaigns for prisoners at the US detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, today denounced alleged torture at the jail and demanded the repatriation of the inmates. Ms. Redgrave was speaking in the town of Venissieux, France, home to two of the prisoners held at the centre. "The health and detention conditions at the Guantanamo base are a genuine reason for urgency," she said in French after meeting relatives of the detainees, Mourad Benchelalli and Nizar Sassi..."
  • Wartime Jewish hero says Warsaw ghetto uprising retains powerful message

    04/17/2003 1:21:01 PM PDT · by yonif · 20 replies · 714+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | Apr. 16, 2003 | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Marek Edelman, the lone surviving commander of the Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis 60 years ago, keeps its lesson fresh simply by looking at today's world. The fight for freedom and against tyranny is never over, he says. With a strong French cigarette in his hand and strong opinions in his mind, Edelman, 82, grows agitated when talking about war in Iraq. "The war is not about oil, it's about defending man's freedom," Edelman said in an interview at his home. "As you can see, the world has not learned the lessons of the Holocaust." Dictatorship is "a disease...