Articles by Hoosen Vawda
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“Peace”: Are Religions the Cause of Peace Disruption in Humanoids? (Part 3)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
Oh, you warring Humanoids, pray to the Lord rather than the religious rituals.
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“Peace”: The Neuro-Anthropology of Peace and the Innate Proclivity of Humanoids to Generate Conflict (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
23 Apr 2022 – Oh, Humanoids Control You Reptilian Brain and the Elusive Peace Will Be Yours
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“Peace”: The Odyssey of the Relentless Pursuit of Humanoids of an Elusive Philosophy (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
16 Apr 2022 – The concept of peace was first introduced into academic literature by the Norwegian pioneer of peace research Johan Galtung, who distinguished between two types of peace: positive peace and negative peace. Defining Peace itself is an arduous process and Galtung, the patriarch of formal Peace Research, has formulated the “Mini Theory of Peace”.
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Applicability of “Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum” to the Present Context of International Belligerence
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
9 Apr 2022 – The Roman General Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus’s seminal work, “Epitoma Rei Militaris,” is the only surviving military tome which elaborates his hypothesis of deterrence through strength and remains the basic foundation of modern military defence policy, eleven centuries later, for achieving peace.
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67 Years Late: Machinations of the Lynching Law
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
“Lynching was pure terror to enforce the lie that not everyone belongs in USA, not everyone is created equal.”
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: The Making of the Mahatma in South Africa
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
The Cutting, Faceting and Polishing of a Diamond
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Nikolayevich Tolstoy: The Aristocratic Renunciator of Materialism
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
The Path Will Be Clear if the Worldly Weeds Are Renounced and Removed
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Imperial, Colonial Thieves: The Annihilation of the Kingdom of Benin and Pillaging of the Royal Palace by British Soldiers (Part 3)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
12 Mar 2022 – A frenzied and savage mob of 1200 British soldiers, empowered and fired up with a singular aim of revenge “against the barbarous savages”, landed on the serene coast line of Nigeria, on 09th February 1897. This was the beginning of a massive attack on and the ruthless invasion of the Kingdom of Benin.
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Imperial, Colonial Thieves: The Long Odysseys of Goddess Annapurna and Treasures of India (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
The Ungodly Thievery of Godly Treasures from India
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Imperial, Colonial Thieves: The Looting of Wealth, and Plundering of Cultural and Religious Treasures of India (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
The Odyssey of Systematic Theft of Wealth and Heritage Artifacts from India by Imperial Britain
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Barbarism by the Epicentre of Civilisation against the Irish on “Bloody Sunday 1972” (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
The Bloody Sunday Massacre at Lodonderry, Northern Ireland by British Soldiers
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Barbarism Practised by the Epicentre of Civilisation (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
The Brutal Massacre at Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar by the British Raj in India
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The Execution of Love as a Tool in Ethnic and Religious Cleansing in India (Part 4)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
“Love Jihad”: Deadly, Peace Destroying, New Strategies in Ensuring the Survival of a Political Ideology
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The Destruction of Literary Heritage as a Tool in Ethnic Cleansing (Part 3)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
Cultural Genocide: The Intentional Burning of Historically Ancient Books of Bosnia
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The Destruction of Literary Heritage as a Tool in Cultural Genocide (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
The Intentional Burning of “Un-German Literature” by Nazi Germany
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The Destruction of Literary Heritage (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
15 Jan 2022 – It is appropriate to begin in ancient history to highlight how libraries were destroyed for political and territorial gains by stronger forces oppressing the weaker ones, throughout history.
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The Partition of India by the British Raj: Destruction of Peace, National Cohesion and Love
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
The Butchering of a Nation by the Guardians of the Civilised Western World
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The Death of the Father of the Rainbow Nation
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
31 Dec 2021 – “I wish I could shut up, but I can’t and I won’t.” — Desmond Tutu. A Celebration of the Glorious Life of the Global Icon, Reverend Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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The Lot of the Exploited, Discriminated and Oppressed (Part 3)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
Is It Predestination, Karma, or Hedonistic Colonial Subjugation by People of Aryan Origins? An Odyssey of Generational Suffering of Humanoids of Colour
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The Lot of the Exploited, Discriminated and Oppressed (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
17 Dec 2021 – Is It Predestination, Karma, or Hedonistic Colonial Subjugation by People of Aryan Origins? An Odyssey of Generational Suffering of Humanoids of Colour
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The Lot of the Exploited, Discriminated and Oppressed (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
Is It Predestination, Karma, or Hedonistic Colonial Subjugation by People of Aryan Origins? An Odyssey of Generational Suffering of Humanoids of Colour
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The Impact of Omicron Infection in South Africa
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
4 Dec 2021 – The Virus Strikes Back
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The Muezzin’s Call
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
An Odyssey of Peace and Spirituality of the Minority “Zanzibari” in South Africa
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Peace Rattler Humanoids’ Search for the Elusive, Eternal Life and Longevity (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
17 Nov 2021 – In this second part, the author highlights the modern attempts in the quest for longevity, in the 21st century, using the novel technological advances made in the past few decades. These are lists of the 100 known verified oldest people sorted in descending order by age in years and days.
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Peace Rattler Humanoids’ Search for the Elusive, Eternal Life and Longevity (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
“A Cocktail of God given Genes, Nurturing, Environment, Diet, Medicines, Technology, AI and Serendipity, stirred and shaken”
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The Foundation of Peace: The Wisdom of Mevlana Jalalud-Din Muhammad Rumi
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
3 Nov 2021 – “Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every Moment, a New Beauty.” — Rumi. As soon as the bus entered the City of Konya, Turkey the passengers are greeted by the display of Tulip flowers in the centre of the traffic circle.
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The Triumph of Good over Evil
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
Deepavali: The Time for All Nefarious Humanoids, Globally, to Reflect and Rectify Their Aberrant Ways
→ read full articleThe Ethics of Unethicality
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
18 Oct 2021 – South Africa’s New Norm: The Acceptable Stealing of Public Funds and “Stepping Aside”
→ read full article“Green Energy”: Are Humanoids Safe?
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
Death Knell for Planet Earth: Is Humankind Embracing a Greater Evil?
→ read full article“Eulogy” for James Bond: World Peace Is at Peril
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
1 Oct 2021 – The Glorious End
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Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
The Final Nemesis of Humanoids
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Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
The Epitome of Mental Illness
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In the Guise of Converting the Heathens
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
The Oppression of Indigenous Peoples in the Name of Religion
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Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
9 Sep 2021 – Easy Life or Painful Death, the Choice Has to Be Made – A Warning to Future Whistleblowers
→ read full articleHis Master’s Voice, His Master’s Eyes, and His Master’s Ears
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
The Colonial Legacy of the Controlling Master Perpetuates in the 21st Century
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Live to Eat and Eat to Die
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
But There Is No Time to Die, There Is Just Enough Time to Suffer – Hail the Intestinal Microbiome
→ read full articleGlobal Industrial Fires, Explosions, Environmental Pollution, and Human Suffering
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
Déjà Vu from Bhopal 1984 to Durban 2021
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Global Wildfires: Methane, the Final Nemesis of Climatic Degradation
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
12 Aug 2021 – The Occult Adversary Remains Invisible – Mother Earth is screaming for help and is dying from humanoid caused destructive activities, which are violently disturbing the balances operative in the various, fragile ecosystems.
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Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
It Was One Settler, One Bullet – Now It Is One Indian, One Bullet
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South Africa Durban Riots 1949–The Destruction of Cato Manor and Murder of People of Indian Origins
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
28 Jul 2021 – History Repeats Itself: The Sad Odyssey of Indian Suburb of Cato Manor–Land Expropriated by the Whites and Destroyed by the Blacks
→ read full articleSouth Africa: The Long Walk to Freedom and a Short Walk to Nowhere
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
21 Jul 2021 – The Values Espoused by Madiba Are Burnt in the Civil Unrest
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South Africa Is Burning: The Legacy of Mandela Is Dead for a Nation of Thieves
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
12 Jul 2021 – It is indeed ironic that South Africa is “celebrating” Mandela Day on 18th July marking the birthday of the great international icon, amid serious civil unrest, resulting in the deaths of 72 South Africans. In reality, the week has become a period of national mourning and reflection on the profound legacy left by the Great Madiba, as did Mahatma Gandhi in India.
→ read full articleDeath of Mohammed Yusuf Khan, India Made Him into an Icon: Dilip Kumar
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
The Odyssey of a Peshwarian into a Global Cinematic Giant
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Dr Edward Jenner, the Father of Vaccination, in the Context of Covid-19 Pandemic
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
The Challenges of Fighting Smallpox and SARS Cov-2 Remain Unchanged
→ read full articleAlan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country- Hollywood in South Africa: 1951 and Bollywood Has Come As Well
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
The Challenges of Filming in Different Eras and Regimes
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Endogenous Racism against People of African Origins–Tulsa and Sharpeville: Parallels in History (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
16 Jun 2021 – Historically, the month of June in the Gregorian calendar is significantly important in terms of liberation of the Black people, globally. The United States Congress approves a bill, marking “Juneteenth: June 19th, a federal holiday, formally marking the end of slavery, and reflects the story of pain, separation, human bondage and highlights the bigotry of African chiefs who sold their own subjects to white colonial slavers for a few trinkets.
→ read full articleEndogenous Racism against People of African Origins–Tulsa and Sharpeville: Parallels in History (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
The Global Injustices towards Black People – June 1st 2021 marked the centennial of the Race Riots now called the Race Massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921, which led to the killing 300 North Americans of African origins, destroying their residences, businesses, and eradicating “The Black Wall Street” of Oklahoma forever.
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Covid-19 Plastics: The Good, the Bad and the Pretty–Art from Pollution
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
One Person’s Thrash Is another Person’s Creativity
→ read full articleCovid 19 Pandemic: Body Disposal Crisis–What to Do with Dead People in a Living World? (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
25 May 2021 – Towards an Eternal Presence – Death and dying, as well as mechanism of body disposal have been a challenge for humanoids since genesis of man, as related in the scriptures of Abrahamic faiths.
→ read full articleCovid 19 Pandemic: Body Disposal Crisis–What to Do with Dead People in a Living World? (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
No Place to Die – The pandemic created a new challenge of what to do with dead people in a living world? This is caused by the increasing numbers of deaths, globally, as a direct result of the pandemic.
→ read full articleCovid 19 Pandemic: Scriptural and Historical Perspectives
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
14 May 2021 – The Vengeance of the Lord of Mother Earth – In the present SARS Co-2 pandemic, the situation is no different and is historically reenacting the scenario of the past occurrences of plagues, pandemics and other doomsday warnings of the ancients as well as voices from antiquities.
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Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2021
Resurrection and Rise of Humanity, Community Assistance from Sikhs, Individuals and the Indigent, Corporations/Bollywood Conspicuous Silence
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In the Shadow and Shade of Apartheid in South Africa: Post-Liberation Impact on the Rainbow Nation
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
South Africa has annually celebrated “The Freedom Day” on 27 Apr since 1994, when the oppressive regime of the Whites Only Nationalist Party, which was in power since 1948, finally gave way to a democratically elected, first Black president of South Africa.
→ read full articleClimate Crisis, Diet/Obesity, Covid-19: Eat Correctly, Save the Planet and Self
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
A Cauldron of Evil Affecting Humanoids – We are facing an existential threat. If we continue along our current path, scientists say that the consequences will be devastating, having implications on where we live, how we grow food and other services vital to our well-being. A 2°C increase could mean more heat waves, a ten-fold increase in Arctic ice-free summers and a complete wipe-out of the world’s coral reefs, home to millions of species.
→ read full articleThe New Pandemic of Disease and Death: Global Obesity 2021, in Company of Covid-19
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
14 Apr 2021- Obesity is not just a condition but is now officially classified as a disease, like Heart or Lung Disease and is therefore medically managed. It may be classified into two broad categories of types: Lifestyle Obesity and Pathological Obesity. Obesity and Covid Concurrently: Guaranteed Death
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Award a Nobel Prize for Peace and Nurture the Killing Fields of Humanity
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
A Trail of Destruction of Two Nobel Laureates in Recent History
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Antiquities, Monuments, Statues, Heritage Sites and Colonial Legacy versus Divergent Cultures, Philosophies, Ethnic Nationalism and Religious Beliefs
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
1 Apr 2021 – A Global Dilemma between Preservation of the Past and the Destruction of Human History – The bottom line is that the oppressed must not transform themselves into the oppressors. This philosophy was espoused by the first democratically elected President Nelson Mandela of South Africa in 1994, in a bloodless transformation of power from the previous oppressive white minority government.
→ read full articleHate Crime, Xenophobia, Racism, Sinophobia, Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism: Call It What You Will, a Crime Has Been Committed
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
I am of the opinion that human beings, from the time of evolution, were hunters and hoarders to ensure their individual survival, instead of ensuring the good of others and the community as a whole.
→ read full articleThe Use and Outcomes of Complementary and Alternative Medical Systems in the Fight against COVID-19 Pandemic
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
Global and South African Perspectives: A Holistic Approach
→ read full articleTo Share or Not to Share Intellectual Property Rights: Covid Vaccine Patents and Developing Countries
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
12 Mar 2021 – The availability and approval of different vaccines against Covid were globally welcomed but have faced a series of challenges: problems with the production of the vaccine, with supply chain management, availability of stocks to vaccinate, who should receive the vaccine first, government officials “jumping the queue”, corruption in distribution, the rich are vaccinated the poor excluded, vaccine apartheid in Israel, export bans of vaccines… [read on]
→ read full articleA Review of the National Strategic Plan: South Africa an Odyssey of Domestic Violence
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
The Presidential Summit against Gender-based Violence and Femicide is primarily an outcome of the mobilisation efforts by women living in South Africa who, on 1 Aug 2018, marched to express their indignation against the increasing levels of gender-based violence and femicide in the country, coupled with the ineffective judicial system, over the past years.
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The Spectre of Domestic Violence and Its Progeny: A South African Perspective
Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
25 Feb 2021 – This singular act of people staying at home resulted in an increase in generalised domestic violence and the birth of its progenies in the form of GBV-Gender Based Violence and VAWAC-Violence Against Women and Children. According to non-governmental organization, Amnesty International, GBV increased in at least five southern African countries during different Covid-19 lockdowns
→ read full articleTo Farm or Not to Farm in Developing Countries
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
19 Feb 2021 – The week has been an interesting one full of global challenges. Recent developments in India, Brazil, Ivory Coast and South Africa with reference to farming trends are becoming a major threat to international food security, empire building of various corporations, as well as the stability of governments, impacting on climate change.
→ read full articleSARS Cov-2 Pandemic in South Africa and the Astra Zeneca Vaccine Fiasco
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
The Sad Odyssey of South Africa Continues for the Rainbow Nation
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Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
I am in receipt of a 4 Feb 2021 message from His Eminence Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, the Archbishop of Yangon, following a coup in Myanmar. The good Cardinal calls for calm, release of prisoners and urges the West to avoid sanctions against the oppressive military regime of Myanmar. A Time for Reflection
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