The price of a human life.:Hrant Dink. թ§Չ‚-Չ€œ I knew him well, Horatio թ§Չ‚-Թ» Alive, he was one man who could reconcile the Armenians with their genociders, the Turks. Hrant was murdered in Turkey in 2007 by those who obviously do not want such a deal. The killers? As with all political assassinations anywhere in the world, you might safely start with the CIA թ§Չ‚-Թ»

I should be delighted that the European Union Court of Human Rights has ordered a compensation to the family of 105,000 Euros թ§Չ‚-Չ€œ the precision is jaw-dropping, why not as the British do add 3 Pounds and 3 pence for postage … or make it a Fiver if you feel generous today!

There is a spine chilling sordidness about this news I find despicable թ§Չ‚-Չ€œ the shamelessness that any committee can decide the price of a priceless human being. For me, not even a billion is enough as a price tag for my friend Hrant Dink. As during the times of Slavery, there may soon arise a hierarchy of price tags թ§Չ‚-Չ€œ what price a Dr. Kelly, the British UN weapons inspector in Iraq? Whatթ§Չ‚-Չ„§s the price tag for Allende, the once democratically elected President of Peru murdered by now the self-confessed CIA braggarts? Should the European Court force our Mrs. Thatcher still alive pay the Compensation, as she was the defiant defender of the arch-murderer Pinochet, when he was arrested in London?
In the Marxist system of Das Kapital, everything, but everything has a price թ§Չ‚-Չ€œ when it comes to Money թ§Չ‚-Չ€œmaking, there is no ethics, no common humane decencies; Profit is the only interest (pun intended!) of transactions. And I think it is this which makes me despise it թ§Չ‚-Չ€œ the commoditization of the human being, which is what gave rise to formal Slavery in the first place, and post-modern whoredom today. While I welcome the EU decision թ§Չ‚-Չ€œ it may even be a first in historical terms evaluating the dead (not only compensating the injured) թ§Չ‚-Չ€œ I abhor its grand formalization of the capitalist commoditization of human beings. Hitherto the dead were commemorated in stone, public sculptures and poetry. Now, political assassinations are turned into a profitable business. And this sends chills down my spine.
Professor Hovhanness Pilikian

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