Kathy Kelly (kathy@vcnv.org) co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence (www.vcnv.org). She, along with Dan Pearson, Gene Stoltzfus, and Razia Ahmad, is part of a Voices delegation to Pakistan due back in the U.S. on June 13th. She sent this to me by email and asked that it be posted.
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Visitors and Hosts in Pakistan
by Kathy Kelly
June 10, 2009
In Jayne Anne Phillips’ Lark and Termite, the skies over Korea, in 1950, are described in this way:
"The planes always come...like planets on rotation. A timed bloodletting, with different excuses."
The most recent plane to attack the Pakistani village of Khaisor (according to a Waziristan resident who asked me to withhold his name) came twenty days ago, on May 20th, 2009. A U.S. drone airplane fired a missile at the village at 4:30 AM, killing 14 women and children and 2 elders, wounding eleven.
The previous day, some travelers had come to Khaisor, and the villagers had served them a meal. "This is our custom," my friend relates. "It is our traditional way."
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