So, April 9 is the day they took down the statue in Baghdad. They are commemorating it by taking down stickers of Moqtada as-Sadr, and they’ve apparently let up a little on the slaughter in Fallujah, though not elsewhere.
April 9 also marks the date of the Deir Yassin massacre in 1948, one of the massacres that took place during the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians that accompanied the foundation of the state of Israel. Like the US in Iraq, Israel is commemorating this anniversary with further atrocities against the population, the most important being the starvation of the population of Gaza.
We are also around the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide.
In April of 2002, the Jenin massacre was unfolding.
Some nicer dates for April: in April 21 of this year, Mordechai Vanunu, the man who revealed Israel’s nuclear weapons program to the world, is being released from prison after 18 years.
Via Campesina declared April 17 the international day of the campesino.
