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I know most of my readers here in this blog, are from United States. This is one major motivation for me to keep on blogging about technical related topics for the tech savvys out there, even though I don’t get much responds besides my traffic analysis. Now this is something pretty much technical unrelated, and might not sound sweet to those in the US, but please, continue reading.

Expose War Crimes: Criminalise War. This is the title of a series of events being held at Putra World Trade Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from February 5th to 11th, 2007. The events include conference and exhibition, organized by Perdana Global Peace Organization. That place is kind of far for me to pay a visit, but thanks to the Internet and bloggers, photos and excerpts are available online.

Now, get to the conference. Let’s look at the list of speakers.

1. Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad Keynote Speaker
2. Mr. Hans von Sponeck Former UN Asst. Secretary General
3. Prof Michel Chossudovsky Internationally renowned Economics Professor
4. Mr. Michael Carmichael Author and Founder of the Planetary Movement
5. Ms. Leuren Moret Internationally renowned expert on depleted uranium
6. Mr. Greg Palast Internationally renowned journalist and author
7. Mr. Gwynne Dyer Internationally renowned author and journalist
8. Ms. Rana Al Alouby Internationally renowned journalist from Iraq
9. Prof. Ms. Niloufer Bhagwat President, Indian Lawyers Association and InternationalTribunal judge
10. Dr. Christopher Busby Scientific Secretary of European Committee on Radiation Risk
11. Prof. Shoji Sawada Physicist, Hiroshima survivor and expert witness on radiation issues
12. Mr. Alfred Lambremont Webre International lawyer with experience in War Crimes Tribunal
13. Prof. Ms. Paola Manduca Professor of Genetics, University of Genoa, Italy
14. Mr. Dirk Adriaensens Founder member of Brussels War Crimes Tribunal
15. Ms. Hana Bayaty Member of Executive Committee of Brussels War Crimes Tribunal and renowned writer and journalist
16. Dr. Walid Al-Khatib Palestinian Peace Activistist
17. Mr. Mohammad Umar Chairman of Ramadan Foundation, UK
18. Ms. Cynthia McKinny USA Congresswoman
19. Mr. Ibrahim El Moussawi Editor in chief of Hezbollah weekly, Al Intiqad and Al Manar TV, Lebanon
20. Mr. Ali Shalah Former detainee in US prison in Iraq
21. Dr. Saeed H. Al Musawi Former Permanent Representative to UN
22. Ms. Anjun Anwar Education Officer, Ramadhan Trust, UK

Something pierced my eyes badly when I browsed through Jeff’s post of ‘Will the real “Prisoner in the Hood” please stand up?‘.

Quotes:

This Israeli dressed in civilian clothes tortured me by inserting, firstly, a jagged wooden stick into my rectum and then later, with the barrel of a rifle. I was cut inside and bled profusely. During this time, when any guard walked past me, they would beat me. I had no food for 36 hours.

I told him that I had an operation. He then pulled the bandage which was stained with blood from my hand and in doing so, tore the skin and flesh from my hand. I was in great pain and when I asked him for some painkillers, he stepped on my hands and said “This is American painkiller” and laughed at me.

Above quotes were taken from slides presented by Mr. Ali Shalah, during his speech. He was detained in Abu Ghraib prison(west of Baghdad) in 2003 and 2004(Six months). His news can be found in New York Times’s March 11, 2006 post here,but later denied by NYTimes on March 17, 2006, here.

I have no comment on this, read carefully the stories published in the links above to get your answer of conscience. For more details in this conference, please visit Jeff’s post at ‘Will the real “Prisoner in the Hood” please stand up?‘, and ‘Criminalise War‘. Thanks Jeff for his informative post on this event.

Now the exhibition. LensaMalaysia.com has a collection of photos here. Wonderful job from guys at LensaMalaysia.com.

By the way, look at this video of Dr M introducing this event. Not too late for a 81 year old man to catch up with the technology eh? Don’t you think he looks cuter now?

Youtube.com original link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4YvF8JiA7M

Dr M has been nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2007.

One last quote from Agata Christie:

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing, that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Please, regardless of your nationality, try your best to say NO to any kind of war that kills.

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