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By Syed M.Aslam
Apr 16 - 22, 2001
*** "PEOPLE ARE supplementing food stocks
with wild pulses and animal fodder, including a variety called pattak
which contains human neurotoxins."
(UN coordinator for Afghanistan reporting that famine
has compelled people to eat animal fodder and dangerous wild seeds and
plants in drought- and sanctioned-hit Afghanistan)
*** "YOUR HEGEMONISTIC behaviour makes us
sick. You think you're the world's policeman. But you're really the
world's biggest criminal."
(A Beijing University student voicing anti-American
sentiment echoed across China over the ongoing spy plane incident)
*** "NOW I am a Muslim. I want to die a
Muslim."
(Well known Indian writer Kamala Das, who embraced
Islam and is now called 'Surraiya', declining to accept the lead offer
in a French film calling acting against her faith)
*** "WE NEED to educate the majority in
society and help the oppressed people to become economically sufficient
to become part of mainstream society."
(Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, Arun, advocating
adoption of his grandfather's teaching as the only way to stop violence
in schools and neighbourhoods at a convention held in Austin, Texas)
*** "THE DEMANDS that I speak in Hindi do
not emanate out of any love for Hindi, but out of fear of my atrocious
English."
(Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee joking
about his English adding that British fled the sub-continent only
because they had become 'intolerably sick' of the way Indians speak
English)
*** "EMBARASSED AT the new package, he has
not accepted the increase . . . It's not for public relations purposes,
but just that he does not feel comfortable with it."
(South African Education Minister Kader Asmal saying
that President Thabo Mbeki refused a 13 per cent pay hike to set an
example for the politicians to lead by example)
*** "I FEEL I have more might with my
stones when I am challenging a fully armed soldier."
(Fourteen-year-old Palestinian Abu Hamda, the
companion of 15-year-old stone throwing boy Ahmad shot dead by Israeli
troops, explaining the popularity of Resistance against Israel)
*** "WE DIDN'T expect it to take so
long."
(Anaesthetist Claire Ang on the marathon five-day
operation that successfully separated 11-month old Nepali twins by a
team of 20 specialists in Singapore)
*** "A DECADE of sanctions have resulted
in the deaths of more than 1.5 million people, including 500,000
children under the age of five."
(A nine-member delegation of American Muslims after
its return from a week's visit to Iraq quoting UN figures and demanding
lifting of sanctions which caused heavily human casualties on Iraq)
*** "TOLEDO DOESN'T belong to the ruling
class. He has come from the lower class. He can say, 'At least I have
lived like the common people have' . . . he can say offer something
different than the other candidates."
(A Peruvian student expressing jubilation on the
winning of top votes by Alejandro Toledo in presidential election)
*** "IT HAS all sorts of humorous
overtones in America because it is a symbol of the Republican
Party."
(Former US president Bill Clinton joking about being
atop an elephant, the symbol of his Republican Party, his political
opponents, in Jaipur, India)
*** "I WANTED to point out that people of
colour are viewed through a veil of criminality . . . as someone less
American than other Americans, therefore people with less rights. Not
just by law enforcement but the guy behind the counter at the
convenience store and whoever."
(US Rock star Bruce Sprinsteen commenting on his new
Album 'American Skin' which deals with racial issues in America)
*** "HEMOPURE IS MADE using hemoglobin
from cattle blood that has had all its proteins removed and then is
purified."
(CEO of Biopure, the company which has developed
blood substitute. South Africa has become the first country in the world
to approve its use for transfusions on humans undergoing surgery)
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