Just as nobody questions our right to breathe, it should be our fundamental right to choose to live in peace. As we go through life, we should focus our energies on growing, learning, and expanding our horizons. We should not spend our precious time on fulfilling only the very basic needs such as finding food/water and being secure. In times of war, the basic needs are often the only ones we manage to fulfill.
This web site is designed to collect stories of war, or the crimes and traumas that could have been avoided hadn’t the war taken place. The purpose of collecting such stories is to spread awareness about long-term, horrific consequences for entire generations and societies that experience war.
Sameh Habeeb's News from Gaza
by Karo Caran | Sun, 01/18/2009 - 01:46I am sitting in a cozy room where books reign. There are so many of them that they could make a soundproof shield against the noise of the outside world. The soft, yellow light shines on my glass of cassis. How sweet it tastes! I listen to the radio and Dore Stein, a host of Tangents at KALW, recommends a blog written by Sameh A.
Read more...Excessive Number of Civilian Casualties
by Karo Caran | Sun, 01/11/2009 - 17:52On Monday's "Morning Edition," I heard the following piece of conversation between NPR's Ari Shapiro and Dr Michael Oren, a writer and scholar now working as a spokesman for the Israeli army.
SHAPIRO: Well, how do Israeli troops function in these very densely populated areas without inflicting excessive civilian casualties?
Dr. OREN: Well, it's unavoidable. It's unavoidable in any military conflict.
SHAPIRO: I'm sorry. Are you saying excessive civilian casualties are unavoidable?
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"Waltz With Bashir," An Animated Documentary
by Karo Caran | Sat, 01/03/2009 - 18:30"When do you realize everything you hear and see ... second- and third-hand information, when do you put everything into one frame and you say, 'OK, there is something very bad, there is mass murder going on just around the hill,'" he says. "And then what do you do in order to prevent it? It's more about chronology of events than about anything else." (Ari Folman in conversation with NPR's Robert Siegel, All Things Considered, 12.26.2008)
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The new documentary, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, tells the story of a group of women who ended Liberia's second civil war. 
