Mainstream media journalists are so worried about "human rights abuses" in Venezuela or Iran. I cant remember them ever taking notice of Yazidi slaughter when it was going on. American military didn't help either. What was it busy with? Fighting Assad?
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@Przemek: Are you kidding? It was Pres. Obama who took action to liberate the Yazidis when ISIS began to overrun Mt. Sinjar (one of the few appropriate uses of American military power in the Middle East).
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@Przemek
If you can't remember the press talking about the slaughter of the Yazidis, it's probably because you were not reading the newspapers. It was covered prominently in the US and UK.
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The horror in the treatment of the
Yazd, mass murder/enslavement,
is depressing, and I suppose the UN
ought to have intervened
with an a-political emergency force, but
human-kind is often regressive, plus I am
too agnostic to believe we can
evolve or progress or achieve even limited
consensus.
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Nadia Murad has taken some wonderful pictures... and done some wonderful things.
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Today, Nicholas Kristof suggested that imprisoned Saudi activist Loujain al-Hathloul receive the Nobel Peace Prize:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/opinion/sunday/loujain-al-hathloul-saudi.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
I suggest that the prize be given to the Yazidi women and men in Sinjar and elsewhere.
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Since the Yazidis have so much in common with Iranians (even their language is an Iranian language), where is Iran in all this? I know Iran was one of the few countries with soldiers on the ground fighting ISIS, but what else has Iran done for Yazidis?
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Very nice work.
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I'm quite sure the photographer Emilienne Malfatto worked hard under quite remarkably difficult circumstances. But documentary photographs should stand on their own and speak articulately for themselves. Alas, most of Malfatto's photographs need explanatory text to give life and understanding to her images. Tight crops of images deprive the viewer of the broader pictorial context that might offer a fuller understanding of the subject.
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Here's more from the photographer. Great web presentation taking you into many different worlds... http://emalfatto.com/
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