"Vietnam and the orange colours of destruction"

Mumia Abu-Jamal (born in 1954) is the best known political prisoner in the United States. At the age of 17 he was in charge of the Black Panther Party (BPP) newspaper in Philadelphia. The BPP was set up in 1966 as an anti-imperialist and anti-racist party which defended the right of black people to armed self-defence against repression. The FBI under Edgar Hoover exterminated the organisation by means of dozens of executions and large-scale arrests of its members. By 1973 the BPP no longer existed. Mumia continued the struggle, however, as chairman of a union of black journalists. He worked for the radio and quickly acquired the name "Voice of the Voiceless". In 1982 Mumia was falsely accused of the murder of a white police officer and sentenced to death. For the past twenty years he has been on Death Row. An international solidarity campaign has prevented him being executed until now. With books like"Live from Death Row", "Death Blossoms", "All Things Censored" and articles Mumia is carrying on the struggle against American imperialism from prison. Here is an extract from "A Woman's Work", one of his anti-war pieces. Free Mumia ! www.mumia2000.org & www.iacenter.org. "When one thinks of war, we are conditioned to think of men in fatigues, perhaps in formation, marching, or driving their malevolent machines of death. That is the dominant face of war, to be sure, but it is not its only face. If we broaden our perspective of war, and consider the many victims of war, we find a woman's face, and the shattered faces of children How could it be otherwise in a world of weapons that drop or launch death on such vast scales as was seen in the world wars, Vietnam, and every imperial skirmish since ? The My Lai massacre of Vietnam was extraordinary in the sense that it received extraordinary media coverage. There were millions - millions - of men, women and children who perished in the hellish conflagration of the Vietnam-US War. Of the 3 million Vietnamese who were bombed, burned, or shot to death during the war, how many were military combatants? A quarter of a million? 500.000 ? A million? We also have to ask another question: "Is it really an accident when civilians die under our bombs?" Even if you believe the Pentagon's claim that its intention is not to kill civilians, if civilians in fact become victims again and again, and it is predictable that they will, can that be called an accident? If the deaths of civilians are inevitable in bombing, it is not an accident. The people prosecuting this war are committing murder. They are engaging in terrorism The average victim in this relentless history of war, death and loss, was not a uniformed, trained or ununiformed fighter, but a mother clutching her child, or a child looking at the sky burst into bright, pretty orange colours of destruction."

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Uitreksels:

· Mumia Abu Jamal: "The orange colours of destruction"
· Les armes chimiques US continuent à tuer des milliers d'enfants.
· From Brussels to Hanoi.
· Vrijwilligerswerk aan de Ho Chi Minh-snelweg

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