Peace at Last?
Wednesday, November 22 2006
PEACE AT LAST?
The ten-year-old civil war in Nepal officially ended yesterday.
According to humanitarian observers, both sides were brutal. The Royal Nepali Army routinely tortured prisoners and abducted enemies. The rival Maoists engaged in public executions and forcibly recruited children as soldiers.
Mandira Sharma, center
Dick talks with Mandira Sharma who, this month, won international recognition for her human rights work during the brutal conflict there. Mandira started doing her work after seeing a friend tortured.
The I first time realized how torture breaks the people. How torture devastates. How torture destroys the personality of the person.
- Mandira Sharma
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Response to polygamy
Linda Kelsch
Also on the show, polygamy revisited. In September, when Warren Jeffs first appeared in a Utah courtroom, Dick talked with Linda Kelsch. Linda is a fundamentalist Mormon who grew up with three mothers and thirty-four siblings. She is now in a polygamous relationship herself.
Linda's defense of her faith and practices inspired one listener, a self-described capital "F" Feminist, to write to us about the apparent unjustness of Linda's religion. Against the backdrop of Warren Jeff's legal proceedings, the two women talk, debate and even joke about their respective views.
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