Why do young people make the ultimate sacrifice in Sri Lanka and Palestine? When they have nothing to live for and the occupying soldiers rape them and kill they choose to kill the enemy than to live. Those who live in comforts can make judgements on them, but, the wife of the PM Tony Blair (also known as Cherie Booth- her maiden name) who just stepped down understood their plight.
Wednesday, 19 June , 2002 00:00:00
Reporter: Matt Peacock
LINDA MOTTRAM: Young Palestinians who blow themselves up do so because they've lost all hope. With that suggestion, Cherie Booth, prominent British human rights lawyer and the wife of Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair, might have thought she was trying to explain though not justify terrorism, but that's not how her critics saw it.
She was speaking at the launch of a medical appeal at the London office of Medical Aid for Palestinians, alongside Queen Rania of Jordan, and her comment provoked immediate condemnation from the Tory opposition and an expression of concern from Israel?s embassy in Britain.
From London, Matt Peacock reports.
MATT PEACOCK: It might have seemed a harmless enough comment. Indeed, almost an obvious truth.
CHERIE BOOTH: As long as young people feel they?ve got no hope and have to blow themselves up, we?re never going to make progress are we.
Edited By - Sintamus - 27 Jun 2007 21:57:22 GMT |