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Across the Universes: Somali Music Stands Against War. Digg_url = "http://www. (Comment, *, Write, Somalis, Comments)-Empire Burlesque - Chris Floyd Online

Across the Universes: Somali Music Stands Against War. Digg_url = "http://www. (Comment, *, Write, Somalis, Comments)-Empire Burlesque - Chris Floyd Online: "Hundreds of thousands of Somalis have been killed or inflicted with grave suffering by the Bush-backed Ethiopian-led 'regime change' in their country, and we have tried to document some of that suffering here. But it would be inaccurate and demeaning to allow the very real and manifold travails of the Somalis to be the only picture ever presented of them, as if they were simply eternal victims, vague, helpless creatures worthy only of pity – instead of fully fledged, individual, complex and engaged human beings like the rest of us. "

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