The Blogosphere on Saddam’s Execution
Reporters Without Borders has an interesting round up of reaction from the global blogosphere on the execution of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Their blog presents a variety of opinions and is worth a look. You won’t agree with everything written there, but it’s certainly an excellent example of how blogs can present a plurality of opinion exactly when we need it.
Each week, Reporters Without Borders publishes the opinions of bloggers throughout the world on an important development, thereby broadening the range of views on current events. The blogs are selected by a team of bloggers of very diverse origins and cultures. We give priority to blogs which Internet users have written in their mother tongue, and we translate them into English and French.
This week : what bloggers from France, Irak, Uruguay, Iran, USA… say about Saddam Hussein’s execution
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Saddam Hussein was tried for genocide and crimes against humanity in events that happened almost 2 decades ago. His guilt in that one trial spoke to a single chapter whose murderous mark personifies a sliver of the total crimes that Hussein committed in over a quarter century of terror. Yet the mainstream media is beside themselves in trying to recreate the image of Saddam Hussein the killer into Saddam Hussein the victim.
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Saddam Hussein was executed before the New Year. Everyone saw him being hanged on TV or on the Internet. This kind of thing does not usually make much of an impression on me. What with all the horrors you see every day on the Internet or on TV, you gradually lose your sensitivity, you get used to morbid things. But this time I was shocked. We are now well into the 21st century and these were scenes that made me think of the Inquisition, when the entire village would gather to burn a witch and watch her die in the flames.
The posts can be found at http://www.rsfblog.org
Global Voices also has an extensive round up of reaction to the video and execution of Saddam Hussein in an extensive post here.
Comment by Onnik — January 7, 2007 @ 4:47 pm