Friday, February 16, 2007
Tired today...
Milosevic's militia commander convicted of political murders in Serbia
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/16/europe/EU-GEN-Serbia-Retrial.php
Danish teenager sentenced to 7 years in Bosnia-linked terror plot
http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=WORLD&ID=564964263287193631
Court sentences Bosnian Serb paramilitary leader to 34 years imprisonment for war crimes
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/16/europe/EU-GEN-Bosnia-War-Crimes.php
EU Should Take Stronger Role In Bosnia, ICG Says
http://www.playfuls.com/news_10_14549-EU-Should-Take-Stronger-Role-In-Bosnia-ICG-Says.html
Bosnia unites to condemn its dozy chief overseer
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=251482007
Falling asleep during important meetings is NOT a good thing, especially not a good thing in a complicated place like BiH.
Amnesty International calls for full transparency in UNMIK inquiry into deaths of Mon Balaj and Arbën Xheladini
http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=ENGEUR700022007
Yesterday I watched my grandkids so that my daughter and son-in-law could have a much needed night out with friends that didn't have to be a night out with kids. They haven't had such a night out since becoming parents.
The kids were totally charming, we watched 'Monster House' and 'Cars' and by my request, some Rocky and Bullwinkle. I was still watching when my daughter and son-in-law got home. I'm tired, but not unduely so. The kids played video games and really shared nicely too.
Yesterday I attended another lecture by Dr. Zontek about Afghanistan and the situation of women in Afghanistan. I did not know that women had taken upon themselves a lot of the work of de-mining in Afghanistan! I knew many facts of the situation of women in Afghanistan were worse than that of women in the Middle East.
Dr. Zontek has a theory that because the land of Afghanistan is so harsh, the carrying capacity of the land is so poor, that the harshness towards women and children is an effort to regulate population.
Regulating population by doing evil to people already born is evil, sorry plain evil. I don't have a problem with birth control, but ruining the lives of women and children just because...sorry I can't go there.
It's worth noting that Afghan women who are married spend most of their subsequent lives pregnant. Afghan women suffer a catastrophic level of deaths during childbirth, or shortly after. I can't help thinking that conditions are worse in modern times than in earlier eras of Afghan history. For example, what I've read of the place before the Soviet invasion suggests that while conditions for women were never very good, it wasn't like this.
War tends to disrupt more than infrastructure in a country, it nearly always worsens conditions for women and children. War is morally destructive to a country as well as physically destructive.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/16/europe/EU-GEN-Serbia-Retrial.php
Danish teenager sentenced to 7 years in Bosnia-linked terror plot
http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=WORLD&ID=564964263287193631
Court sentences Bosnian Serb paramilitary leader to 34 years imprisonment for war crimes
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/16/europe/EU-GEN-Bosnia-War-Crimes.php
EU Should Take Stronger Role In Bosnia, ICG Says
http://www.playfuls.com/news_10_14549-EU-Should-Take-Stronger-Role-In-Bosnia-ICG-Says.html
Bosnia unites to condemn its dozy chief overseer
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=251482007
Falling asleep during important meetings is NOT a good thing, especially not a good thing in a complicated place like BiH.
Amnesty International calls for full transparency in UNMIK inquiry into deaths of Mon Balaj and Arbën Xheladini
http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=ENGEUR700022007
Yesterday I watched my grandkids so that my daughter and son-in-law could have a much needed night out with friends that didn't have to be a night out with kids. They haven't had such a night out since becoming parents.
The kids were totally charming, we watched 'Monster House' and 'Cars' and by my request, some Rocky and Bullwinkle. I was still watching when my daughter and son-in-law got home. I'm tired, but not unduely so. The kids played video games and really shared nicely too.
Yesterday I attended another lecture by Dr. Zontek about Afghanistan and the situation of women in Afghanistan. I did not know that women had taken upon themselves a lot of the work of de-mining in Afghanistan! I knew many facts of the situation of women in Afghanistan were worse than that of women in the Middle East.
Dr. Zontek has a theory that because the land of Afghanistan is so harsh, the carrying capacity of the land is so poor, that the harshness towards women and children is an effort to regulate population.
Regulating population by doing evil to people already born is evil, sorry plain evil. I don't have a problem with birth control, but ruining the lives of women and children just because...sorry I can't go there.
It's worth noting that Afghan women who are married spend most of their subsequent lives pregnant. Afghan women suffer a catastrophic level of deaths during childbirth, or shortly after. I can't help thinking that conditions are worse in modern times than in earlier eras of Afghan history. For example, what I've read of the place before the Soviet invasion suggests that while conditions for women were never very good, it wasn't like this.
War tends to disrupt more than infrastructure in a country, it nearly always worsens conditions for women and children. War is morally destructive to a country as well as physically destructive.
# posted by Katja R. @ 8:56 AM 
