As I came to work today the news of the killed Hussein brothers wasn’t that new anymore. Nevertheless the pictures of the two killed men were shown in the first film of our news show. Since I don’t feel that good when seeing dead people, I managed to look away during our shows^*. But when shifting through newspapers they suddenly sprang at me from the frontpage of the ‘Bild’-newspaper ( that’s something like the sun or the … is there something like that in US? ).

What were they thinking? Two mauled people on the frontpage of a newspaper probably everyone in this country will see? Either my standards are weird or the standards of a lot of other people.

Suddenly I feel old.

Do we need ‘experts’ to see what is right or wrong? [via heute.de]

[Quote] professor Michael Bothe von der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerrecht erklärt, die Veröffentlichung solcher Bilder könne gegen den allgemeinen Grundsatz der menschenwürdigen Behandlung verstoßen. Der Grundsatz, wonach die Opfer bewaffneter Konflikte menschenwürdig zu behandeln sind, gilt “über den Tod hinaus”, wie der Völkerrechtsexperte betont. [Quote]

* Because Death is a very private and disturbing thing to me.

_{Edited cause I found the quote of an human rights expert who says it might be against human dignity two show those pictures because dignity does not end with death. Edited again cause I messed up the tags.}

Edited on Jul 25th 2003, 04:53 by jeck

Edited on Jul 25th 2003, 04:55 by jeck