Arundhati Roy says butchered Iraqi aid workers derserved fate
spinifex | 15.11.2004 01:03 | Analysis | Anti-racism
In her acceptance speech for an Australian "peace prize", millionaire author Arundhati Roy has suggested that Margarat Hassan and others like her deserve their fates.
In her acceptance speech for an Australian "peace prize", millionaire author Arundhati Roy has implied that Margarat Hassan and others like her deserve their fates.
"...Many resistance movements in poor countries which are fighting huge injustice and questioning the underlying principles of what constitutes "liberation" and "development", view Human Rights NGOs as modern day missionaries who've come to take the ugly edge off Imperialism," Roy told an A-list invitation-only audience at a plush Sydney venue.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/11/04/1099362264349.html
Meanwhile, the body of a woman with her legs and arms cut off and throat slit was found today lying on a street in Falluja, a notorious Iraqi enclave for hostage-takers, US marines said.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/After-Saddam/Butchered-blonde-woman-found-with-throat-slit/2004/11/14/1100384427010.html
"...Many resistance movements in poor countries which are fighting huge injustice and questioning the underlying principles of what constitutes "liberation" and "development", view Human Rights NGOs as modern day missionaries who've come to take the ugly edge off Imperialism," Roy told an A-list invitation-only audience at a plush Sydney venue.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/11/04/1099362264349.html Meanwhile, the body of a woman with her legs and arms cut off and throat slit was found today lying on a street in Falluja, a notorious Iraqi enclave for hostage-takers, US marines said.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/After-Saddam/Butchered-blonde-woman-found-with-throat-slit/2004/11/14/1100384427010.html
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