OPINION

Standing by community, not with Charlie

News, Chaiwat Satha-Anand, Published on 14/01/2015

» The Paris march for unity on Sunday attracted more than a million people and world leaders including Germany’s Merkel, Britain’s Cameron, Turkey’s Davutoglu, Israel’s Netanyahu, and Palestine’s Abbas, among others. This extraordinary action by leaders and citizens is in response to perhaps the bloodiest week in the last half of a century in France with 17 dead. It began with the killing of 12 people at a previously little known satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. French President Francois Hollande warned that the threats facing France are still serious even though the three perpetrators are dead.