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...asked when she hoped to achieve her dream of being a suicide bomber, she grinned, squirmed and buried her face in her arms. "She's already written her application," said her commander, Lt. Col. Dewarsara Banu, smiling at her charge's shyness. "But there's still no reply." "Why hasn't there been a reply?" whined Samandi, looking up with the one eye, her left, that survived a shot to the head and fiddling with the capsule of cyanide powder around her neck. "I want this. I want to be a Black Tiger. I want to blast myself for freedom...
...Samandi was not alone. Banu said every time there is a call for suicide mission volunteers - called Black Tigers - more than 50 young guerrillas applied. So many, in fact, that Prabhakaran created a martyrs' lottery. "They put everyone's name in a tombola," said Banu. "They swirl them around. Then the Leader pulls out two names, reads them out and the 48 who aren't chosen are all crying. But the two who are chosen, they are very happy and the people around them raise them on their shoulders and are all clapping and celebrating...
...into alliances with whomever they pleased. All entities entering into alliances with the two sides were to be protected by the ceasefire declared in the treaty. About 18 months after the treaty was signed and followed in letter and spirit by the Muslims, an allied tribe of the Quraysh, Banu Bakr, made an unannounced attack upon an allied tribe of the Muslims, Banu Khuza?...
...Quraysh not only aided in the logistics of this attack, but also allowed Banu Bakr to massacre escaping members of Banu Khuza’ah at the Holy Sanctuary in Mecca. It was recognized throughout Arabia that by ancient custom, the Holy Sanctuary in Mecca was to be free of bloodshed, and tribes approaching it for protection were to be allowed safety. The actions of the Quraysh were in clear violation of recognized rights and responsibilities, both under customary tribal law, and under the Treaty of Hudaybiyah. Clearly, it was not the Prophet who unilaterally abrogated the treaty...
...more a question than a message, because each artist has his own way of adapting his work to different tasks. Some, like Collier Schorr and his revealing photos of awkward adolescents, make no distinction between creating work for its own sake and trying to vend clothes. Others, such as Banu Cennetoglu and his dimension-defying landscapes, seem to be sticking in the models as an afterthought to their previous works. So the gimmick both works and it doesn’t: we indeed get to see a very rare sight, how commisioned and non-commissioned art from the same artist...