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Hundreds escape in deadly Iraq prison raids
Hundreds of Iraqi prisoners escaped after Al-Qaida insurgents armed with mortars and machines guns launched coordinated late-night assaults at both the Taji and Abu Ghraib prisons that left at least 25 members of the security forces dead.
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Amna Suraka in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq
Amna Suraka is one of Saddam Hussein’s “Houses of Horrors”. This is a complex where something bad happened, and you know it. In Kurdish the words “Amna Suraka” translates as “Red Security”. The main building is built of red and brown bricks hence the name. This building has a horrific history. But rather than knock it down and destroy the evidence of what remains, the Kurds saw the opportunity to keep it as it was, turn it into a museum and allow locals and visitors (few and far between) to see the horrors of the Ba ‘ath Party regime run by Saddam Hussein. It’s very cool that they have done that. Sometimes we need to see the horrors of the past to realise how lucky we are and ensure that the future of our children is a happy and hopeful one. We want peace, we don’t want war. Nobody does. Surely.
Visitors of the Amna Suraka today may explore the multi-story administrative building. It’s been left largely as it was the day of its capture by Peshmerga: structurally intact but gutted and studded with holes from warfare. The basement, lit with deep, dark red, contains haunting photographs from the chemical attack in Halabja. Among the images is Ramazan Öztürk’s iconic image Silent Witness. School children on class visits to the museum climb about the various disused tanks and helicopters which sit in the courtyard outside the administrative building.
The central building of the Museum of War Crimes opens with the Hall of Mirrors. What was once the offices and canteen of ranking members of the Ba’ath party is now a hall covered with 4,500 light bulbs representing villages destroyed during al-Anfal, and 182,000 shards of broken glass—for every person killed during the operation. The Hall of Mirrors also contains a replica of a traditional Kurdish home.
Following the Hall of Mirrors are corridors and floors containing the prison cells where prisoners were held, tortured, raped and executed. Some cells are shadowed and empty, with Kurdish Arabic words written or carved out by the people who inhabited the rooms or visitors who followed them. Local artist Kamaran Omar was commissioned to cast five life-size statues of prisoners hand-cuffed to walls, being beaten and hanging from electrical wires. The latter prisoner is accompanied by a recording of an interrogation. Echoing from within these barren, graffitied rooms surrounded with barbed wire, the effects of the recording are chilling. One cell contains a statue of Atta Ahmed Qadir, a Kurdish school-teacher lauded for his courage. Qadir was held in that very cell before his transfer to the Abu Ghraib prison, where he was executed in 1990.
The Amna Suraka shares features with Cambodia’s Tool Seng prison of the Khmer Rouge: both buildings were used not just to imprison and torture, but as weapons for genocide. Both are urban prisons, with residences very nearby. Both have been preserved by the nations of the forces which liberated them to be correctives of history. And both leave the traveler stricken for having walked the halls and rooms where humans caused so much suffering and where humans suffered so much.
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Spike Island in Cork, Ireland
Spike Island is an island of 103 acres in Cork Harbour, Ireland. Originally the site of a monastic settlement, the island is dominated by an 18th-century star fort named Fort Mitchel. The island's strategic location within the harbour meant it was used at times for defence and as a prison. Since the early 21st century the island has been developed as a heritage tourist attraction, with €5.5 million investment in exhibition and visitor spaces and accompanying tourism marketing. There were in excess of 64,000 visitors to the island during 2018. Spike Island was named top European tourist attraction at the 2017 World Travel Awards.
Used as an Island prison, fortress, monastery and home, today visitors can meet captains and convicts and sinners and saints as you uncover 1300 years of Irish history. With prison cells, deep tunnels, island walks and multiple museums, explore the 'Irish Alcatraz' via a guided tour or using the free map and app. Access to the island is by ferry from Kennedy pier, Cobh, go to for sailings and opening times.
The islands recorded history goes back to the 7th century when St Mochuda founded a monastery on this magical island. Monks walked the island trails for 300 years until the Vikings sailed into Cork harbour, and for many centuries the island was used by smugglers, pirates and as an island home.
In 1779 work began on a fortress and this would become the impressive 24 acre Fort Mitchel which crowns the island today. Able to garrison 3000 men and with guns that could fire a shell 12 miles, the fort was so important that Winston Churchill called Spike Island 'the sentinel tower of the defences of Western Europe'.
The fortress that was built to defend an empire became the largest prison in the world in the 1850's, as the famine raged in Ireland and people resorted to stealing food to survive. The prison opened in 1847 and soon held over 2300 inmates, and there has never been a larger prison in Ireland or Britain before or since. Conditions at 'Ireland's Alcatraz' were terrible and 1300 poor souls would never leave the island, buried now in mass graves with no headstone. Today visitors can explore the dark cells of the punishment block, Ireland's most notorious prison. You can walk the children's prison which held boys as young as 11, and sit in solitary cells.
The prison closed in 1883 and the fort was used by first the British and then the Irish military, as island social life continued for 2 centuries. A prison would return in 1985 and a riot that year forced the islanders to evacuate, ending centuries of island social life. The prison would continue until 2004 and today you can walk the modern cells. Hear stories of daring escapes, Irish rebels, Ireland's most notorious criminal and a dark past.
Today the island has several museums and exhibitions on the social, military, penal and monastic past, and there are stunning views as you complete the 'Ring of Spike', a 5km walking trail with interpreted signage.
In May 2006 the then Minister for Justice Michael McDowell announced plans to build a new prison on the island. However, in January 2007, it was decided to explore an alternative site for the new prison, and a local task group was set up to re-open Spike as a historical tourist site. In 2009 it was announced that ownership of the island would be transferred (free of charge) to Cork County Council to enable its development as a tourist attraction. The Council formed a steering group to explore how Spike Island might be developed as a tourist site, and the Council subsequently licensed operators to give guided tours of the island.
Since 2015, tours depart from Cobh during the summer, taking in the fort, prison cells, gun emplacements, and key points of interest.
Following additional €5.5m investment by Cork County Council and Fáilte Ireland, additional attractions and facilities were opened for the Summer 2016 season. As well as the previously opened buildings and 6-inch gun emplacements, as of Summer 2016, visitors to the Fortress Spike Island cultural heritage attraction can also tour the punishment block, the 1980s cells (which include an exhibition on the 1985 Spike Island riot), the recreation of the hull of a transportation ship, and an interpretative installation on John Mitchel - for whom the fort is named.
In September 2017, at the World Travel Awards, Spike Island was named 'Europe's Leading Tourist Attraction', ahead of the Acropolis in Athens, Buckingham Palace in London, and the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
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The National Justice Museum including creepy torture equipment & prison cells, Nottingham, England.
A brief walk through the National Justice Museum in Nottingham, England.
The court room featured (very briefly) has appeared in many television and movie court scenes as it has a classic look of a UK courtroom (it has been out of use for many years as a 'real' court).
The torture equipment and prison cells under the court were the highlight. Overall a worthwhile place to visit.
Although my visit was during the 2020 pandemic, the museum still had live actors with whom you could engage in conversations. As a result I ended up with a few abrupt edits because I didn't want to show them on camera.
Travel tips in Cuba
Cuba is one of the most unexplored countries in the world- mainly because 330 million people at its doorstep are banned! This video slideshow reveals some tips about travel in Cuba (from a Canadian!)
United Arab Shipping Vessel - Hatta arrival at Port of Khaor Fakkan Port of the United Arab Emirates
Ship Hatta calling Khor Fakkan Port - UAE in March 2008 after it's new delivery to United Arab Shipping Company.
بالفيديو للمرة الأولى قضاء ابو غريب يقيم موكب عزاء في ذكرى عاشوراء
في حي الزهور بقضاء أبو غريب الذي سيطر عليه تنظيم داعش في فترات سابقة، يحي الاهالي ذكرى عاشوراء لأول مرة منذ اعوام طويلة. شعائر حسينية وتوزيع للطعام بمشاركة أبناء المنطقة من مختلف المذاهب.
عبد الرضا حمزة يقول: موكب اولاد الحسين عليه السلام يقام لاول مرة في منطقة سنية ولو التسمية ما نحبذهه . واثبتنا للناس انه السنة والشيعة كتلة وحدة وحزام واحد واخوة متالفين وماكو طائفية في مناطقنه هذي.
ويضيف كامل الجميلي: عشائر جميلة والبو عامر والحلابسة اشتركت بهل مواكب ماكو عشيرة معينة كل العشاير وماكو منطقة شيعية ومنطقة سنية كلهم تكاتفو بهل مواكب هاي.
أهالي المنطقة وجهوا دعوتهم للعوائل المهجرة من ابو غريب للعودة الى ديارهم بعد أن عاد الامن الى القضاء.
فاضل السيلاوي يقول : ارجو من اخوانه الي تهجرو يرجعون لمناطقهم واني شيعي من اهل العمارة والحمد لله والشكر كاعدين هنانه وكلشي ماكو ماكو فرق بين سني وشيعي كل احنه عراق واحد.
أبناء الشعب العراقي متلاحمون في ما بينهم وما إقامة الشعائر الحسينية في قضاء ابو غريب إلا رسالة الى السياسيين العراقيين ليتناسوا خلافاتهم وليتوجهوا نحو بناء العراق يقول ذلك مواطنون.
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viennacontemporary 2015 | Talk: How Does the Art World React to Challenges and Changes in Society?
How Does the Art World React to Challenges and Changes in Society?
chaired by: Vanessa Joan Müller – Head of Dramaturgy Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Bassam El Baroni – Independent Curator and Art Critic, Alexandria, EG
Séamus Kealy – Director Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
Catrin Lorch – Art Critic Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, DE
Contemporary Art is often understood as a mirror of the society it arises from, as a critical commentary or an analysis through aesthetics. Currently, our world is changing at a pace that does not leave much room for long-term reflection. Even the art world itself is undergoing changes to an extent that forces curators and other protagonists to question their own position. The speakers will discuss the challenges of our time and how and if the art world can react to them.
Camden Conference 2012 - Nicholas Burns
The 25th annual Camden Conference “The U.S. in a 21st Century World: Do We Have What it Takes?” took place February 17-19, 2012 live from the Camden Opera House and simulcast to satellite venues, the Strand Theatre in Rockland, and the Hutchinson Center in Belfast.
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