Amnesty International Croatia
We had originally planned to collect 2,000 signatures on specially designed postcards for President Obama and via our online petition, but we managed to collect more than 2,100 after which we sent them to the US authorities.
We had been planning to organize five public actions in several Croatian cities, but we managed to carry out 13. Two public statements were sent out as planned, and several electronic and print media published our statements. We gave a short interview for Radio 101, one of the most popular radio in Zagreb.
In April, we sent three urgent actions concerning the cases of Guantánamo detainees (el-Gharani, Zuhair and Tumani) to our groups and individual membership. In the context of these three urgent actions more than 100 appeals were sent to the US authorities. We know that for the time being two Amnesty International Croatia groups have sent letters of solidarity to Guantánamo detainees and are still awaiting information and reports from other groups in order to have the complete data.
Edin Tuzlak, Amnesty International in Croatia
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SHAKING MAN
Now man shakes in his shoes,
He does not fetch a sigh of joy,
Grief is mirrored in his face,
His charm of life goes to the wind,
So unless man disarm themselves
their rainbow dream of world peace
will ever crumble to dust
UN
A honey tongue, a heart of gall,
UN was set up to prevent sabre rattling,
in order to maintain international peace,
but it`s voice against war falls on deaf ears,
if button for another atomic war is idiotically pressed,
there will be rack and ruin- a crime against humanity,
as it happened in the last world war
THUNDERING SOUNDS
Thundering sounds of pitched battles,
Make earth and sky tremble with fear,
Cries of dying men rise and fall in the air,
While war-mongers guffaw with pride in decorated chairs,
Cruelty runs through the blood of war mongers,
They arm each nation to teeth,
So bombs blast with horrific sounds,
And people die like swarms of flies,
Whose ghastly sights make our flesh creep
Another poem:
APRIL is the cruellest month,
breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory
and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.