Whose heart doesn't ache when one sees the brutal scenes in the video captured by people's cameras?
The Horror of Egypt's Crackdown is reminiscent of all the revolutions...What revolution, what uprising through history have really been peaceful? Yesterday's friend had become today's enemy...Love had turned into hatred...Conscientious souls had transformed into heartless and the dreams for peace had changed for war....That's the repetitive world we live in!! How easily one forgets that "A Man's a Man" as Bertolt Brecht indicated in his play decades ago....BUT REVOLUTION IN REVOLUTION IS NECESSARY...AND THE COURAGEOUS SOULS ARE THE DYNAMIC FORCES BEHIND THE CHANGES...
It's a bloody world we live in today!!
Every day, every moment such incident happens in any corner of the world. Violence has become ordinary whether it happens in the occupied zones, war zones, in the wide streets or dark alleys of the world....
"All crackdowns are brutal. Stories of violence against women, frequently tinged with sexual aggression, are as common in Egypt's crackdown as they are in every other. The story behind this photo, of a modest young woman stripped down and beaten like an animal, is remarkable precisely because it is ordinary.",...
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