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I was listening to DemocracyNow yesterday when Amy Goodman began interviewing a few guests about the date, September 11 and how it was a fateful day for many other countries before the 2001 attack on WTCs.
Thought it was an interesting bit to share. The following is an abbreviated quote. The full interview can be seen, heard, read at
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/9/8/a_fateful_day_9_11_also
Ariel Dorfman states in this interview that "there are many 9/11 type events everyday...." and there wasn't any implication that this date alone has a particular significance in the arena of US-backed coups d'etat, but fateful ones to be remembered and learned from.
I was listening to DemocracyNow yesterday when Amy Goodman began interviewing a few guests about the date, September 11 and how it was a fateful day for many other countries before the 2001 attack on WTCs.
Thought it was an interesting bit to share. The following is an abbreviated quote. The full interview can be seen, heard, read at
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/9/8/a_fateful_day_9_11_also
On the anniversary of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we look back at several national and international events linked to that day.
This year on September 11, India will mark the 105th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi launching the modern nonviolent resistance movement.
On September 11, 1973 a U.S.-backed coup in Chile led by General Augusto Pinochet ousted Chile’s democratically elected president, Salvador Allende. Allende died in the palace on that day. http://www.democracynow.org/2011/9/8/epitaph_for_another_9_11_reknown
On September 11, 1990, renowned Guatemalan anthropologist Myrna Mack was assassinated in Guatemala City. She had been stalked for two weeks prior to her death by a U.S.-backed military death squad. Myrna had been targeted in retaliation for her pioneering field work, which had begun to expose and document the destruction of rural indigenous communities in Guatemala. Guatemala’s U.S.-backed state forces and allied paramilitary groups were responsible for tens of thousands of human rights violations, including attacks against indigenous populations.
On September 11, 1993, in the midst of the U.S.-backed coup in Haiti, Antoine Izméry was dragged out of a church by coup forces and murdered in broad daylight. He had been commemorating a massacre of parishioners at the Saint-Jean Bosco Church that had occurred five years earlier on September 11, 1988. Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide narrowly escaped death in that attack, and later became president of Haiti.
Then there was Steve Biko in South Africa. Steve Biko was being beaten to death in the back of a van, September 11th, 1977, by apartheid forces—unfortunately, U.S.-backed apartheid forces. He died in the early morning hours of September 12th, 1977.
Ariel Dorfman states in this interview that "there are many 9/11 type events everyday...." and there wasn't any implication that this date alone has a particular significance in the arena of US-backed coups d'etat, but fateful ones to be remembered and learned from.