Condemned Kurdish journalist’s father dies
by Jura Watchmaker, 16 October 2007
I’ve just received a heavy-hearted email circular from Hadi Butimar, brother of one of the two Kurdish journalists on death row in Iran. The message does not concern Hiwa Butimar and his co-condemned Adnan Hassanpour so much as Hiwa’s father.
On 12 October Mr Ali Butimar died, we are told, of a broken heart shortly after a prison visit during which father and son were separated by a thick glass partition, and had to speak through a phone line. Maybe this is common practice in other countries, but it doesn’t make it any less barbaric.
Meanwhile, Turkish military forces are massing along the border with Iraqi Kurdistan, and Iran and Turkey continue their shelling of Kurdish villages.
Wednesday 17 October 2007 at 2:11
“Turkish military forces are massing along the border with Iraqi Kurdistan, and Iran and Turkey continue their shelling of Kurdish villages.”
Maybe Condi Rice can drag her ass off the piano of the Palestinian State bar and do something about it.
America may be the greatest country on God’s green earth (to quote Michael Medved) — but I still hate it.
Wednesday 17 October 2007 at 5:18
I doubt very much that the US is sitting on its hands on this one. The consequences of the destabilisation of northern Iraq, and a de facto military alliance between Turkey and Iran (Turkey’s membership of NATO aside), don’t bear thinking about. And as for the Palestinian State bar, good for Dr Rice.