Thursday, February 17, 2011

A Cautionary Tale...Addendum

From the piece by Nick Kristof in today's Times about the pro-democracy protests in Bahrain:

"Walk with protesters here, and their grievances seem eminently reasonable. One woman, Howra, beseeched me to write about her brother, Yasser Khalil, who she said was arrested in September at the age of 15 for vague political offenses. She showed me photos of Yasser injured by what she described as beatings by police.

Another woman, Hayat, said that she had been shot with rubber bullets twice this week. After hospitalization (which others confirmed), she painfully returned to the streets to continue to demand more democracy. “I will sacrifice my life if necessary so my children can have a better life,” she said."


Imagine that in your own family...

Enough said.

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