“None
of us need anniversaries to remind us of what we cannot forget...The
grief is still deep. The rage still sharp. The tears have not dried.
And a strange, deadly war is raging around the world. Yet, each person
who has lost a loved one surely knows secretly, deeply, that no war, no
act of revenge, no daisy-cutters dropped on someone else's loved ones
or someone else's children, will blunt the edges of their pain or bring
their own loved ones back. War cannot avenge those who have died. War
is only a brutal desecration of their memory.”
from “Come September,” a speech by Arundhati Roy
