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Angelina Jolie Opens Sex Violence Summit With Aim to End War Rape

 

 

ABC News’ Hamish Macdonald reports:

LONDON – Actress Angelina Jolie opened a high-profile global summit in London today, aimed at ending sexual violence in conflict and emphasizing the message that victims have nothing to be ashamed of.

Rape in war zones is widespread and affects hundreds of thousands of people, many in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.

“It is a myth that rape is an inevitable part of conflict; there is nothing inevitable about it,” Jolie, special envoy to the U.N. Commissioner for Refugees, said in opening the London conference. “It is a weapon of war aimed at civilians. It has nothing to do with sex, everything to do with power.”

 

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Some Perspectives on Memorial Day

 

“Choking back tears, Christian Golczynski accepted the flag from his father’s casket. Photographer Aaron Thompson described this moment as ‘the most emotionally moving event I may have ever witnessed and may ever witness in my life’.”
From ABC News

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Important article.

 

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Pegoda took the thoughts right out of my head.

 

And, most would also agree with Dr. Martin Luther Kings views on non-violence. King was against war in general. 

 

When you see how sad it is for the children, spouses and parents who have lost loved ones to war, it makes one question what the logic is with all the invasions and fighting.

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The Invisible War

 

“THE INVISIBLE WAR is a groundbreaking investigative documentary about one of our country’s most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within our US military. Today, a female soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire with the number of assaults in the last decade alone in the hundreds of thousands.

 

Focusing on the powerfully emotional stories of several young women, the film reveals the systemic cover up of the crimes against them and follows their struggles to rebuild their lives and fight for justice. THE INVISIBLE WAR features hard-hitting interviews with high-ranking military officials and members of Congress that reveal the perfect storm conditions that exist for rape in the military, its history of cover-up, and what can be done to bring about much needed change.”

 
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Why We Still Mourn for Wounded Knee

Community Village‘s insight:

 

This article has some historical details that I didn’t know. I recommend the whole article. There are so many good sections I didn’t want to quote just one.

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Remembrance, reconciliation are focus of Dakota 38+2 Riders

 

NEW ULM – On horseback, bundled against the cold, a band of riders passed near New Ulm Tuesday, one day away from arriving in Mankato to commemorate one of the saddest, angriest moments in Minnesota’s history.

 

The Dakota 38+2 Memorial Ride originated in Lower Brule, S.D., has been making its way across South Dakota and southern Minnesota to Mankato, where on Dec. 26, 1862, 38 Dakota men were hung in the largest mass execution in U.S. history. Two other participants were hung elsewhere. It was the final act in the US-Dakota War, which had raged across this area in August of 1862, but just the beginning of the U.S. war against the Native Americans that ended with the Wounded Knee massacre. It was an act that has affected the souls and psyches of the survivors and relatives of those involved in the war, even today.

 

Since December 2008, the Dakota 38+2 Ride has covered the 330 miles from the Lower Brule reservation to the hanging site in Mankato.

 
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Confessions of a former drone warrior – CNN.com Video

CNN’s Hala Gorani, in for Christiane Amanpour, speaks with former U.S. drone sensor operator Brandon Bryant.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

He believes he killed a child.

 

Adults used to be children too.

 

Does race play a role in this? Does racism? Or nationalism? Thinking one’s own country and people are better than another country and people.

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