[Peace-discuss] Fwd: AWARE co-sponsorship

[Al Kagan]

I am forwarding this from Roaa.

>Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 02:19:41 -0600 (CST)
>From: roaa mohammad al-heeti <alheeti at students.uiuc.edu>
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>Subject: AWARE co-sponsorship
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>Hi Al,
>I hope you are doing well. Ii enjoyed going to the last AWARE meeting.
>Thanks again for inviting me.
>People metnioned they wanted to do some research on the issue and speaker,
>and so I'm forwarding you this info if anyone asks you or to add to any
>discussions that might be going on.
>The following is informaion from Baker's book, "Kashmir: Happy Valley,
>Valley of Death."
>"DO NOT FORGET WE HAVE GIVEN OUR TODAY FOR YOUR TOMORROW.
>	So reads the epitaph on the headstone of a fifteen-year-old Kashmiri
>boy, laid to rest among a sea of gravestones and markets in a special cemetery
>for martyred children. I visited that cemetery on three occasions, during
>two of which I witnessed the burials of a thirteen and ten year old who
>were being lowered beneath the soil. At both burials I approached the
>grieving families with a sense of guilt and helplessness.
>	As the parents, family and friends realized who I was, despite the
>agony and grief which resulted, they lovingly unwrapped the bodies of their
>children for me to see the bullet holes, the torn flesh of innocent youth.
>	Then, with hardly a word and tears streaming down their faces, they
>mothers lifted their outstretched arms with palms turned upward and
>looking into my eyes and asked simply, Why?"
>Also, here is the link to his group's website: http://www.campintl.com/
>
>Thanks again Al and take care!
>Roaa


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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
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Urbana, IL 61801, USA

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