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Der Baader Meinhof Komplex is a 2008 German film by Uli Edel; written and produced by Bernd Eichinger. It stars Moritz Bleibtreu, Martina Gedeck and Johanna Wokalek. The film is based on the 1985 German best selling non-fiction book of the same name by Stefan Aust. It retells the story of the early years of the West German militant group the Red Army Faction (RAF). The film was selected as the official German submission for the 81st Academy Awards in the category Best Foreign Language Film and made the January shortlist. It was nominated on December 11, 2008 for the Golden Globe in the Best Foreign Language Film category. The film retells the early years of the West German militant group Red Army Faction (RAF) and concentrates on the RAF from its beginnings in 1967/1968 at the time of the German student movement to the German Autumn (Deutscher Herbst) in 1977. The film began production in August 2007 with filming at several locations including Berlin, Munich, Stammheim Prison, Rome and Morocco. The film was subsidized by several film financing boards to the sum of EUR 6.5 million. Distribution and response "When the film opened in Germany last year, some younger viewers came out of theaters crestfallen that the Red Army Faction members, still mythologized, were such dead-enders. Some who were older complained that the film had made the gang look too attractive. But they were dead-enders, and they were attractive. A film about them, or any other popular terrorist movement, has to account for both facts if it seeks to explain not just their crimes but also their existence." The film premiered on September 15, 2008 in Munich and was commercially released in Germany on September 25, 2008.[3] The film was chosen as Germany's official submission to the 81st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film Michael Buback, the son of former chief federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback who was assassinated by the RAF in 1977, expressed doubts concerning whether the film seriously attempts to present the historical truth, although he had not seen the movie when he expressed this concern. He subsequently amended this statement but pointed out that the film concentrates almost exclusively on portraying the perpetrators which carries with it the danger for the viewer of too much identification with the protagonists. Protesting against the historically "distorted" and "almost completely false" depiction of the RAF's assassination of Jürgen Ponto, Ponto's widow and witness Ignes Ponto returned her Federal Cross of Merit, since she saw the German government, which co-produced the film through various film financing funds, as jointly responsible for the "public humiliations" suffered by her and her family. Representing the family, her daughter Corinna Ponto called the film's violation of their privacy "wrong" and "particularly perfidious". Jörg Schleyer, the son of the assassinated manager and then president of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations, Hanns Martin Schleyer, states, however, that the movie was a great film which finally portrayed the RAF as what it actually was, "a merciless, ruthless gang of murderers". Commenting on the blatant depiction of violence he said, "Only a movie like this can show young people how brutal and bloodthirsty the RAF's actions were at that time. The movie website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 80% of critics gave the film positive write-ups based upon a sample of 30 with an average score of 6.6/10.0. Hollywood Reporter gave the film a favourable review,[10] praising the acting and storytelling, but also noting a lack of character development in certain parts. A mixed review with similar criticism was published in Variety. Fionnuala Halligan of Screen International praised the film's excellent production value as well as the efficient and crisp translation of a fascinating topic to film, but criticized the fact that the plot flatlines emotionally and doesn't hold much dramatic suspense for younger and non-European audiences unfamiliar with the film's historical events The Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden, Germany's national agency which evaluates movies on their artistic, documentary and historical significance, gave the movie the rating "especially valuable". In their explanatory statement the committee says: "the film tries to do justice to the terrorists as well as to the representatives of the German state by describing both sides with an equally objective distance." The committee asserts: "German history as a big movie production: impressive, authentic, political, tantalizing". SOURCE: www.en.wikipedia.org
لقد قمت بالبحث من زمن طويل عن أنسان وكاتب وسجين رأي عربي من اليمن هو منديلا "السعيدة العمياء" وجفارا العرب. اشهر سجين رأي يمنيحيث بقاء مايقارب الخمسة عشر عامافي زنزانةالمستبدوالعابث باليمن. وقد تدخلت المنظمات العالمية من أجل سراحه من سجون القهر واتت النتيجة بعد زمن طويل ليرحل من السجن الى سلم الطائرة تحت أشراف دولي ليستقر في النرويج.
المناضل منصور راجح شخص حبته واحترمته الجماهير لخصاله الانسانية وموازرة الحق وتعشقه بل اتخذته الجماهير رمز الصمود والصلابة الوطنية والشرف والوفاء, سنعرفه أكثر من خلال اعماله الأدبية الرائعة.الشاعر والإنسان منصور راجح يكتب القصة والرواية والشعر والمقالة, كما أنه منظر سياسي فقد دراس التجارة والزراعة في لبنان وسورية. وقراء الشعر وانخرط في العمل السياسي من صباه فهو احد أبناء مدينة تعز عاصمة اليمن الثقافية والسياسية.
بعدالمراسلات التي بدات قبل اكثر من عام ونصف وبعد أبلاغ المناضل الشاعر والإنسان منصور راجح تم الاتفاق على ترشيحه لجائزة الموقع العالمي لشعراء وكــتـّاب أوتــاوا المهـتمين بحقوق الإنسـان لعام 2010م. وسيبداء العمل المشترك مع السيد منصور راجح قريبا و سيكون احد أعضاء الموقع كاتبه وممثله في الدول الاسكندنافية والعالم.
د. محمد توفيق المنصوريالناشر والمحرر والمؤسس
Remembrance ceremonies are attracting crowds in Canada and around the world Wednesday to honour those who died while serving their countries. Nov. 11 marks the anniversary of the end of hostilities in the First World War, at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918. In Ottawa, Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, will attend a ceremony with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean at the National War Memorial in Confederation Square. This year's Silver Cross mother is Della Marie Morley, whose son, Cpl. Keith Morley, was killed in Afghanistan in 2006 in a suicide bombing. Morley said she was proud to represent the mothers and families of Canadian soldiers who have given their lives. "I would like you to think of my son and the young men and women that have given their lives in Afghanistan, but as well as the other wars. I grew up with Remembrance Day a very big part of our lives because my grandparents were part of World War I," Morley told CBC News. "There are some of Keith's friends in Afghanistan right now, so we also need to think of the people that are over there now doing their job." More than 100,000 Canadians soldiers have died in various conflicts since 1899, including: More than 240 in the Boer War. More than 66,000 in the First World War. More than 44,000 in the Second World War. 516 in the Korean War. 121 in peacekeeping missions. 133 in Afghanistan. More than 600,000 Canadian soldiers volunteered to go overseas for the Great War. In addition to those who died, 172,000 were wounded. Only one Canadian veteran from the First World War is still alive — John Babcock, 109, who was born on an Ontario farm and lives in the United States. Afghan service In Afghanistan, the Canadian Forces have already marked the occasion with a traditional Remembrance Day ceremony led by outgoing commander Brig.-Gen. Jonathan Vance. Defence Minister Peter MacKay, Industry Minister Tony Clement and Senator Pamela Wallin attended, as did the loved ones of seven Canadian soldiers who lost their lives in Afghanistan. They joined Kandahar's governor and some military commanders to lay wreaths in remembrance. MacKay presentd a Canadian Sacrifice Medal — the first awarded in Afghanistan — to Sgt. Vince Adams. Adams was wounded in 2006 in the Zhari district of the province of Kandahar when his body was pierced by metal that exploded out of a suicide bomb. After a long recovery, Adams returned to Afghanistan this year to finish his tour. Now he is instructing soldiers on ways of detecting and avoiding roadside bombs. "Soldiers call those the 'forgot-to-duck medal,' not to make light of it," Adams said after the ceremony. "For me, the most important thing is those [memorial] books.... have my friends who didn't get to have the medal. Maybe it sounds cliché, but it's for them that I wear this." One of those family members who attended the Afghanistan ceremony was Nicole Starker, who lost her husband, Cpl. Michael Starker, in 2008 when he was killed in ambush while on foot patrol. "It's been a very emotional and very healing experience coming here, being with other families of fallen soliders, and being able to see [Kandahar Air Field], to smell it, to be where he was," she said. "As a wife, that is a side of your husband that you don't get to know." European ceremonies In England, the country paused for two minutes to remember the fallen. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip participated in Armistice Day ceremonies at Westminster Abbey. This year's service marked the first time that no British First World War vet was in attendance. Over the past year, the last three surviving British veterans of the war passed away. In France, a German leader took part in that country's memorial services for the first time. German Chancellor Angela Merkel joined French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the main remembrance ceremony in Paris. The two leaders laid a wreath at the tomb of France's unknown soldier at the Arc de Triomphe and symbolically relit the flame above the tomb. "French-German friendship is sealed with blood," Sarkozy said. Source: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/