Mohsen Makhmalbaf Quotes
Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world.
Makhmalbaf, Mohsen. "An Interview with Iranian Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf." Interview by Richard Phillips. World Socialist Web Site, 28 Nov. 2001.
Confederate General Wheeler had introduced a new tactic of mining the roads with improvised explosive devices which took their toll on Sherman’s troops. At the time, this was against the ruled of war. Sherman ordered a few Confederate prisoners to the front and required them to walk ahead of his troops and demine the roads. He then allowed some of the prisoners to return to General Wheeler with a note from Sherman, explaining that if the Confederates persisted in this unethical form of warfare he would march all of the Confederate prisoners in the front of the troops and force them do remove the explosives by hand regardless of the danger. Wheeler never planted land mines again.
The description was of the battle field at Bull Run. The Times even then was very candid. The public was shocked and some thought it unpatriotic to print this.
The Russians, who had invaded Afghanistan successfully, then proceeded to lose Afghanistan.
earlier given as 100,000 dead The CIA had actively financed and supported a Coup by General Sukarto in Indonesia. There were horrible atrocities in Eastern Java and other areas where the populations were sympathetic to and would likely vote for the communists. Not only did the CIA do nothing to restrain these atrocities, but the only planes that were engaged were unmarked military jets flown by CIA contract pilots who bombed and strafed many of the Indonesian villages. Originally Ambassador Green had reported that “only” 100.000 Indonesians were killed (in just a few days), but as this testimony showed, the deliberate slaughter involved many more and some historians claim that there were even more murders. This one engagement probably involved many more deliberate killing of civilians in a few days than took place in the entire Vietnam war. However, since the hearings were classified, the Senators were not allowed to tell anyone. Even in the classified hearings Ambassador lied to the Congress about the CIA involvement. No one, including the CIA pilots who bombed the defenseless villages, was ever brought to justice for the killing of the 500,000+ civilians.
The only soldier ever so honored
Mohsen Makhmalbaf is an Iranian film director, writer, film editor, and producer. He has made more than 20 feature films, won some 50 awards and been a juror in more than 15 major film festivals. His award-winning films include Kandahar; his latest documentary is The Gardener and latest feature The President.
