I promise to use it sparingly, and only where appropriate. There are just some human-rights stories in the news that call for something solemn that isn't my picture of south Manhattan from 21 August, 2001.
Have you read about the BBC's "One day of war" - Focussing on a day in the life of people involved in 16 of the wars being fought at the moment, some of which I am ashamed to say I was unaware of.
Inhumane prisons and extrajudicial imprisonment, mostly. The places highlighted are all listed in a BBC News Online article about infamous prisons and the question of whether to raze them to the ground or establish them as memorials to those who've suffered in them. I left out one that was on the BBC map, because the Bastille hasn't been operational since the French Revolution (it was listed as an example of a prison that became a memorial). The prison in Libya's no longer operating either, to my knowledge- Khadafi drove the first bulldozer to knock the outer walls down as a sign of 'liberation', which is really a bit rich given that he was in charge of the regime that sent most of the prison's inmates there to begin with. But basically the issue being addressed is seriously inhumane prisons and extrajudicial imprisonment.
Well, the Maze made the list mostly because the BBC Online article spent several paragraphs talking about it. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/3746199.stm , for reference's sake.) But you're probably right about Belmarsh; I need to do some reading about it first and then fiddle with the map graphics a bit if I'm going to include it.
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