The Systematic torture in Bahrain continues with full impunity on torturers
http://bit.ly/myjPGq 14feb
Bahrain: Front Line’s Andrew Anderson highlights the denial of justice in the trial of Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja
http://bit.ly/jwMb1l 14feb
Bahrain uprising Martyrs
http://ping.fm/tQRKG
Martyr square in 1991.
In the 19th century, the square was known as Place des Canons. During World War I, Lebanon was under Ottoman rule. In 1915, Beirut suffered a blockade by the Allies, which was intended to starve the Turks out. The effect was a famine, followed by plague, which killed more than a quarter of the population. A revolt against the Turks broke out which resulted in hanging of many nationalists on 6 May 1916 in the renamed Martyrs’ Square. Among them were Said akl, Father Joseph Hayek, Abdul Karim al-Khalil, Abed al-Wahab al-Inglizi, Joseph Bishara Hani, Mohammad and Mahmoud Mahmassani, Omar Hamad, Philip and Farid el-Khazen, and Sheikh Ahmad Tabbara.
Currently some remains of the old Cinema Opera building (now a Virgin Megastore) and the bronze Martyrs statue are the only features left of the Martyrs’ Square. The statue, riddled with bullet holes, has become a symbol for all that was destroyed during the Lebanese Civil War.
The Martyrs’ Square is a common location for protests and demonstrations, among the more notable demonstrations were the 2005 anti-Syrian protests of the Cedar Revolution and 2007 anti-government opposition protests led by Hezbollah and The Free Patrotic Movement.
I do not own these pictures, only found them at work in an old film.
In the mountains of Lebanon
In 1990 newly independent Namibia became on of the world’s first nations to write environmental protection into its constitution.
Aerial view of Salts Pans in Namibia
Photo by Kit Wilde
Namib - Duna 45 by tapperoa on Flickr.
