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Sanum Ghafoor on the language of war

Author
Sanum Ghafoor
Date
13 June 2011
Type
Video
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Sanum Ghafoor takes a look at war speak – where one man’s collateral damage is another man’s son…

“The frightening thing about the use of euphemisms is their power to efface the memory of actual cruelties. Behind the fa√ßade of a history falsified by language, the painful particulars of war are lost.”
David Bromwich

Sanum Ghafoor

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