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| Iraqi demonstrators get assistance |
| 2003-01-23 |
| Peter Ackerman's International Center for Non-Violent Conflict, whose training in civic action helped local demonstrators bring down Slobodan Milosevic's government in Serbia, is being flooded with requests from intriguing places for similar teachings. The center's courses and its documentary films by Steven York, "A Force More Powerful" and "Bringing Down A Dictator," have been translated into various languages including Arabic, Farsi and Chinese, and beamed by exiles into Iraq and Iran by satellite TV. Video cassettes of the courses are also being distributed discreetly into Iraq, Iran, Myanmar, Tibet and China. Do not mock this stuff. It helped lead to the Iraq's first peaceful protest against the Iraqi regime. After Saddam "emptied" his jails last year, the disquieting fact was how many of the prisoners never emerged. The regime seems incapable of either crushing or ignoring the protest demos by Iraq's "Mothers of the Disappeared" -- echoing the similar demos in Argentina that helped undermine the military junta. How about dropping these tapes on Saudi Arabia? |
| Posted by:Steve |