Archive for the 'Torture' Category

02 May 2011

Bury my Heart at Meerwala

By Anwaar Hussain Meerwala is a small, dusty village in the mostly rural Muzaffargarh District in the south of Punjab province of Pakistan. This small, nondescript village has produced a personality whose name has been reverberating across the globe for some years now. The name of this person is Mukhtaran Bibi (also known as Mukhtar [...]

29 Aug 2010

Bloodied be thy name

By Nadeem F. Paracha It was horrifying: the beating to death and then the upside down hanging of the two young brothers in Sialkot. Accused of theft, the teenagers were brutally beaten with sticks and kicks by at least four men — an event that was watched in silence by a couple of cops and [...]

18 Aug 2010

Scream!!!

Read this New York Times report. Then this Truth Spring story. Then compare the truth with the fiction.

01 Jul 2010

My Name is Ozymandias, King of Kings

By Anwaar Hussain While the American colonial goliath lies wheezing at the callused feet of its adversaries in Afghanistan, its commander General Stanley McChrystal has been fired by President Obama for his indiscrete comments to the media. Not many tears are being shed on the general’s fall. Almost everyone who is any one in Washington [...]

01 Feb 2009

What to Do About the Torturers?

By David Cole The story of America’s descent into torture in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, has been told now by many writers. Mark Danner, Jane Mayer, and Ron Suskind have written brilliant expositions of the facts, showing how the drive to prevent the next attack led the administration’s highest [...]

04 Jan 2009

Guantanamo

A hellhole where torture scandals shook the world’s trust in US justice By Tim Reid On January 11, 2002, a giant C141 military transport aircraft landed at the US military base in Guantánamo Bay after an 8,000-mile journey from Kandahar, in Afghanistan – a trip during which the 20 hooded, shackled prisoners inside had not [...]

20 Nov 2008

A Letter to America

By Anwaar Hussain Dear Americans, With your election of Barack Hussein Obama, you have almost realized the dream of Martin Luther King. Now truly you have a chance to rise up as a nation and live out the proper meaning of the creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created [...]

Copyright ©Truth Spring 2006 - 2009