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The Taliban’s Massacre in Peshawar Must Be Its Last – NYTimes.com

Outside the main ward of the Lady Reading Hospital, where five teenage Muslim boys lay fighting for their lives, a Christian had come bearing roses.

“Cannot go inside!” said the officer in plain clothes.

“But these roses,” pleaded the Christian man.

“You may give these flowers to me,” said the officer. “Thank you.”

The officer turned to us. “The Christians have called off Christmas, you see,” he explained — in honor of the schoolchildren murdered here this week.

via The Taliban’s Massacre in Peshawar Must Be Its Last – NYTimes.com.

Extremist Settlers Commit Successive Breakings Into Al-Aqsa

Israeli extremist groups on Wednesday broke into Al-Aqsa mosque compound from Al Mughrabi gate, accompanied by private forces.

Local sources said that the attacks on the mosque took place through small but successive groups, making provocative ‘tours’ in the corners and facilities of Al-Aqsa.

via Extremist Settlers Commit Successive Breakings Into Al-Aqsa.

93-year-old woman finds husband after 77 years of waiting: Shanghaiist

“I’ve only cried three times in my life,” she told a reporter who documented her reunion. “I must have known him in a previous lifetime, because every time I cried it was for him,” she said.

Zhang first cried when she got the message of Zhong’s death. Seventy years later, she received a photo of her late husband and ended up in tears. When she looked upon his name in Taipei, she cried again. “We will never be apart now,” she said.

via 93-year-old woman finds husband after 77 years of waiting: Shanghaiist.

Mother, Madre, Mère, Mutter, Mãe, Μητέρα, Mama, Mor, майка, Moeder, 母亲, мат,Ibu,Ummi,.أمي. Anne ღツ

YA BAKİ ENTEL BAKİ

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Your Mother carried you inside of her womb for nine whole months, she felt sick for months with nausea, then she watched her feet swell and her skin stretch and tear. She struggled to climb stairs, she got breathless quickly and even a simple task like putting her shoes on was a huge struggle for her. She suffered many sleepless nights while you kicked and squirmed inside of her and while you demanded that she scoffed junk at 3am, she then went through excruciating pain to bring you into this world. She became your nurse, your chef, your maid, your chauffeur, your biggest fan, your teacher, your agony aunt and your best friend. She’s struggled for you, cried over you, fought for you, put herself second for you, hoped the best for you and has driven herself insane with worry for you but never has she asked for anything in…

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Letter from Esteban, prisoner from San Sebastián Bachajón

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Letter from Esteban, prisoner from San Sebastián Bachajón

DECEMBER 2014

To civil society

To the independent media

To human rights defenders

To independent social organizations

To the pueblo creyente (believing people)

To the Indigenous National Congress

To the EZLN
estebanTHE PRISONER = ESTEBAN GOMEZ JIMENEZ

I have been imprisoned since 2012, they accuse me of an assault, carrying weapons, and murder, my arrest was in a village called (Pamala) when they found me cutting wood and took me to cereso no. 17 playas de Catazaja where I spent a year and 8 months, then I was moved to cereso no. 14 “EL AMATE” in Cintalapa de Figueroa, Chiapas.

Since I was detained there have been many violations of my human rights. Therefore I demand they grant my immediate freedom because I am innocent of these charges that are put against me, I hold the three levels of bad government responsible for any other injustice…

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