August 19, 2005

Death of a slave in Lebanon

I turned to the Angry Arab news service because it got a mention in the Guardian this morning in connection with the "disengagement". What I saw shocked me and had nothing to do with Gaza or Israel. Below a picture of a Sri Lankan servant the Angry Arab certainly earns his title:
This is a victim that will not be mentioned in Lebanese news bulletin, and her death will go unnoticed. Not even an investigation is warranted because the victim is a poor maid from Sri Lanka: her name for the record is Sushal Rosky (b. 1987), and she killed herself by hanging early morning yesterday. The lousy Hariri rag (Al-Mustaqbal) even mocked her death: they said that her love of her country has killed her...........
.............This image will stay with me. And if US media are not busy covering the "anguish" of Israeli occupation soldiers and the "suffering" of Israeli colonial settlers, will they find the time to cover her death?
The piece referred to in the Guardian is here.

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