Je ne suis pas Charlie

comments     Chaiwat Satha-Anand     Published     Updated

COMMENT The Paris march for unity on last Sunday attracted more than a million people and world leaders including Germany's Merkel, Britain's Cameron, Turkey's Davutoglu, Israel's Netanyahu, and Palestine's Abbas, among others.

 

This extraordinary action by leaders and citizens is in response to perhaps France’s bloodiest week in the last half of a century, resulting in 17 dead. It began with the killing of 12 people at a previously little known satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo .

 

French President Francois Hollande warned that the threats facing France is not over even after the three perpetrators were dead.

                                                                                                           

The threat is real, however, not only because of information gathered by various intelligence agencies, but also because the violence and what has followed indicates a rift in the way Europe, and in fact the world, is moving in the context of fierce contestation of different ethics/values people are willing to die, and for some, to kill for...

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