Sunday Bloody Sunday: Criminalise War Exhibition

I can't believe the news today,
I can't close my eyes and make it go away.
How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long? Tonight we can be as one.
Broken bottles under children's feet,
Bodies strewn across a dead end street,
But I won't heed the battle call,
It puts my back up, puts my back up against the wall.

Sunday, bloody Sunday.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.

And the battle's just begun,
There's many lost, but tell me who has won?
The trenches dug within our hearts,
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart.

Sunday, bloody Sunday.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.

How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long, Tonight we can be as one.
Tonight, tonight.

Sunday, bloody Sunday.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.

Wipe the tears from your eyes,
Wipe your tears away,
Wipe your blood shot eyes.

Sunday, bloody Sunday.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.

And it's true we are immune.
When fact is fiction and T.V. is reality,
And today the millions cry,
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die.
The real battle just begun.
To claim the victory Jesus won,
On a Sunday bloody Sunday,
Sunday bloody Sunday.

-- U2, War (1983)


The PGPO Criminalise War Conference ended Wednesday February 7th, 2007 with the War Crime victims presenting their cases to the War Crime Commission. The Commission has agreed to establish a War Crime Tribunal expected to convene sometime in June 2007.

Exhibition will remain open till Sunday February 11th, 2007. You can checkput pictures of the exhibition on Lensa Malaysia and Jinggo's Fotopages February 5th-7th postings.

As you are entering the exhibition, you are led through a tunnel with flickering light bulbs. Then comes a bombardment of grafic images, figures and sound depicting near real cases victims of war and torture. The exhibition ends with pictures of peace drawn by children with the sound of Lennon's Imagine.

I am sure you will come out horrified and appreciate peace.

I'll be putting up the various papers and materials from the Conference in my next posting. Visit the the Exhibition. Its a worthy ...

Sunday bloody sunday.

A Voice
Kuala Lumpur
February 9th, 2007 11:40 a.m.