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New Hetalia FST under the cut
Notes:
I finished this FST 3 months ago already but didn't get a chance to upload it until today.
This is my second Hetalia FST and like with my first one a lot of thought went into it.
Originally the timeline was supposed to be 1900-2000, (the horrors of the 20th century) but I changed that later on and applied it more to political stuff that influenced me and my generation personally.
I was 6 when the Berlin Wall fell and I remember my parents waking me up and carrying me in front of the TV saying "the wall is falling, the wall is falling".
Later I remember the iconic picture of the tank men on all news paper front pages.
(The image is still banned in China, tank man is thought to have been executed).
The first conflict I followed in the news was the Bosnian War.
These are only a few examples.
This FST was made with several questions in mind like:
"What happens to the personification of a country if its own people start killing its own people?"
"Does it have any influence over politics? If yes, how much?"
"Do personifications share the moral values of humans or are they different having lived hundreds of years?"
"What needs to happen so a personification dies? What makes it stay?"
"To what extend does a country share the pain of its people?"
"How does time flow for these century old personifications?"
"Having seen countless conflicts and times in their time, what can/does a country do when it realizes a new war is going to start due to human politics?"
"Does a country always carry the guilt of its people?"
"What is the soul of a being like that sees unimaginable things happen maybe not only one time but hundreds of times in its lifespan and yet knows that its unable to protect those beings that it personifies?"
etc.
The songs and lyrics were selected with care.
The idea to make an FST like this came to me while listening to the eerie version of "Always from my mind" which instantly reminded me of the relationship between the two Koreas, by chance I listened to "O Children"a little later and I felt it was providing me with some answers to questions I had thought about while also raising some new ones.
Warnings:
This FST does in no way want to point a finger at any mentioned country, it is a subjective and incomplete collection of tragic events starting with the aftermath of WW2.
To cut a long story short I hope this FST will make you think and/or that you will at least be able to enjoy the music.
Thank your for reading and please be so kind to leave some feedback if you decide to download.
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Timeline 1945-2010
War Adagio//London Symphony Orchestra
Vergangenheitsbewältigung:
is a composite German word that describes processes of dealing with the past
(Vergangenheit = past; Bewältigung = coming to terms with, mastering),
which is perhaps best rendered in English as "struggle to come to terms with the past".
Machine Gun//Portishead
I saw a saviour, a saviour come my way
I thought I'd see it in the cold light of day
But now I realise that I'm only for me
If only I could see you return myself to me
And recognise the poison in my heart
There is no other place, no one else I face
The remedy will agree with how I feel
Here in my reflecting, what more can I say?
For I am guilty for the voice that I obey
Too scared to sacrifice the choice chosen for me
If only I could see you return myself to me
And recognise the poison in my heart
There is no other place, no one else I face
The remedy to agree with how I feel
I Am The Killer//Thursday
Life runs through this trade
I am no killer
But I still hide my face
In the coming days
I wake up every morning
From the same dream
And then I kill it
But you can't change the letters when the ink dries
I woke up on the sidewalk and everything just changed
Now the lights are blinking but I can't see anything
Everything's falling part
Crumpled paper
Crushed tin cans
Broken bottles
Paper scraps
We all look the same
But I am the killer
During the second world war 2 Germany ordered, organized and condoned numerous war crimes,
the most notable of these was The Holocaust.
The genocide of approximately
six million European Jews during World War II,
a programme of systematic state-sponsored extermination
by Nazi Germany throughout Nazi-occupied territory.
Some scholars maintain that the definition of the Holocaust
should also include the Nazis' genocide
of millions of people in other groups,
including Romani (more commonly known in English by the exonym "Gypsy"),
Soviet prisoners of war, Polish and Soviet civilians, homosexuals,
people with disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses and other political and religious opponents,
which occurred whether they were of German or non-German ethnic origin.
By this definition, the total number of Holocaust victims would be between 11 million and 17 million people
Dance little Liar//Arctic Monkeys
I heard the truth was built to bend
A mechanism to suspend the guilt
Is what you are requiring still
You've got to dance little liar
And the clean coming will hurt
And you can never get it spotless
When there's dirt beneath the dirt
The liar take a lot less time
I'm sure its clear and plain to me
Its not an alibi you need just yet
Oh no its something for those beads of sweat
Yes that we'll get you back to normal
And after you have dabbed the patch you’ll grieve
And then proceed to scratch the varnish off
That newly added calmness
So as not to raise any alarms too soon
The liar takes a lot less
Time to decide on his saunter
Have you got itchy bones?
And in all your time alone
Can you hack your mind being riddled
with the wrong memories?
42//Vitamin String Quartet(cov.Coldplay)
(instrumental)
Those who are dead are not dead
They’re just living in my head
And since I fell for that spell
I am living there as well
Oh..
Unit 731 was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit
of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation
during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and World War II.
It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japanese personnel.
After the war, the U.S. believed that the research data was valuable and they
did not want other nations, particularly the Soviet Union, to acquire data on biological weapons.
Some former members of Unit 731 became part of the Japanese medical establishment.
Dr. Masaji Kitano led Japan's largest pharmaceutical company, the Green Cross.
Others headed U.S.-backed medical schools or worked for the Japanese health ministry.
Shirō Ishii moved to Maryland to work on bio-weapons research.
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After WWII, no Italian war criminal was brought to court for crimes in Africa,
France, the Balkans and on the Eastern Front,
though more than 1,200 Italian officials were indicted by the relevant authorities.
It was thanks to the complicity of the British Colonial authorities that Italian War criminals did not face
Nuremberg style prosecution for their crimes.
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After World War II, many Austrians sought comfort in the idea of Austria as "the Nazis' first victim".
The Austrian Government, which was surrounded by the Soviet zone,
was recognised by the Western Allies in October 1945 after some doubts that they could be Stalin's puppets.
Thereby the creation of a separate Western Austrian government and the division of the country could be avoided.
Austria, in general, was treated as though it had been originally invaded by Germany and liberated by the Allies.
Lacking outside pressure for political reform, factions of Austrian society tried for a long time to advance
the view that the Anschluss was only an annexation at the point of a bayonet and denied their countries own war crimes
and existence of concentration camps.
For the first time in the history of the European Union diplomatic sanctions were imposed on a member state in 1999.
This was in reaction to Joerg Haider's extreme right-wing party making it into the Austrian government.
All bilateral relations to other EU countries were frozen for 6 months.
Haunted Home//David Fonseca
You want to drink my soul
'Till your heart is full
What happens when it's full and it splashes?
You've built all these rooftops
And painted them all in blue
If all this set just burns up will you paint the ashes?
Do you really want to see?
Because I'll let you in
With me
You shiver when the wind blows
Through doors that lost their keys
There's too little to rescue, too little to hang on to
I thought that maybe we could try to
Clear and rebuild this haunted home
I'll be glad to help you just tell me what to do
Why don't you tell me what to do?
Maybe you're scared too
I've been here before
Next thing you'll see
You'll feel
So small
I will disappoint you
And I don't care if I do
I belong to those who got shattered, battered,
Bruises and scars that I've hidden you could never heal
This grey house where I come from
Some great love will tear it down
If you no longer love me why should it matter?
Tell me why should it matter?
I can't ask you to stay
I can't find the words to say
Why don't you just leave?
Just leave
Francoist Spain refers to a period of Spanish history between 1939 and 1975
when Spain was under the authoritarian dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
Franco had come into power through the Spanish Civil War (1936-39)
During the Spanish Civil War Italy sent 80,000 men to Franco's nationalistic cause.
The Permanent Commission of the European Parliament "firmly"
condemned in a resolution unanimously adopted in March 2006 the "multiple and serious violations"
of human rights committed in Spain under the Francoist regime from 1939 to 1975
.
A law is supposed to enforce an official recognition of the crimes committed
against civilians during the Francoist rule and organize under state supervision the search for mass graves.
Elephant Gun//Beirut
If I was young, I'd flee this town
I'd bury my dreams underground
As did I, we drink to die, we drink tonight
And it rips through the silence of our camp at night
And it rips through the night
And it rips through the silence of our camp at night
And it rips through the silence, all that is left is all that i hide
The Gulag spanned nearly four decades of Soviet and East European history
and affected millions of individuals. Its cultural impact was enormous.
First established in 1919 the camps were officially closed in 1960.
Gulag, were forced-labor prison camps for prisoners of war or political prisoners, in the USSR.
More than 14 million people passed through the Gulag from 1929 to 1953,
with a further 6 to 7 million being deported and exiled to remote areas of the USSR.
The death toll for this same time period is estimated at 1.6 million casualties.
Most Gulag inmates were not political prisoners, although the political prisoner population was always significant.
People could be imprisoned in a Gulag camp for crimes such as petty theft,
unexcused absences from work, and anti-government jokes.
Over 30 million are estimated to have died in gulags across the soviet union.
The Radiance//Linkin Park
"We knew the world would not be the same.
A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita.
Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty,
and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form, and says,
'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'
I suppose we all thought that, one way or another."
-Robert Oppenheimer about the first artificial nuclear explosion on July 16, 1945
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1947-1991: The Cold War
Political conflict and military conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States.
Millions died in the superpowers' proxy wars around the globe, most notably in Southeast Asia.
The Korean War established proxy war as one way that the nuclear superpowers indirectly conducted their rivalry in third-party countries.
The NSC-68 Containment Policy extended the cold war from occupied Europe to the rest of the world
Bullet the Blue Sky//Tunnel Fishin
In the howling wind comes a stinging rain
See it driving nails
Into the souls on the tree of pain
From the firefly, a red orange glow
See the face of fear
Running scared in the valley below
In the locust wind comes a rattle and hum
Jacob wrestled the angel
And the angel was overcome
You plant a demon seed
You raise a flower of fire
See them burning crosses
See the flames higher and higher
Bullet the blue sky
Bullet the blue
This guy comes up to me
His face red like a rose on a thorn bush
Like all the colors of a royal flush
And he's peeling off those dollar bills
Slapping them down
One hundred, two hundred
And I can see those fighter planes
Across the mud huts where the children sleep
And through the walls you hear the city groan
Outside is America
Across the field you see the sky ripped open
See the rain through a gaping wound
Pounding on the women and children
Who run
Into the arms
Of America
1950-1953: The Korean War
At the Potsdam Conference (July-August 1945), the Allies unilaterally decided to divide Korea,without consulting the Koreans.
In December 1945, Korea was administered by a US-USSR Joint Commission, as agreed at the Moscow Conference (1945).
The Koreans were excluded from the talks
.
In 1950 conflicts escalated dramatically when North Korean forces
attacked South Korea, triggering the Korean War.
In occupied areas, North Korean Army political officers
purged South Korean society of its intelligentsia
by assassinating every educated person-academic, governmental, religious-
who might lead resistance against the North.
United Nations-allied South Korean military killed between 200,000-1,200,000
alleged communists and suspected sympathizers in 1950 (The Bodo League massacre).
Both sides, especially the South Korean one committed many other massacres of unarmed citizens,
children and women until the end of the war.
An armistice was signed in 1953 ending hostilities and effectively making the division permanent.
The death toll of the war ranges between 2,5 and 3,5 million.
Always on my mind//Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
Maybe I didn't treat you
Quite as good as I should have
Maybe I didn't love you
Quite as often as I could have
Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time
Maybe I didn't hold you
All those lonely, lonely times
You were always on my mind
Celebration Guns//Stars
Are the beating drums
Celebration guns
The thunder and the laughter
The last thing they remember
Then the next day
How will you know your enemy
By their colour or your fear
One by one
We can cage them in your freedom
Make them all disappear
Six hundred sixty six
Hundred sixty days
Two guards one uncharged
This morning's paper
Ink stains my fingers
My hands grow darker everyday
Goodnight, sleep light, stranger
1946-1954: France - Vietnam War
The North Vietnamese government viewed the war as a colonial war, fought initially against France,
backed by the U.S., and later against South Vietnam, which it regarded as a U.S. puppet state.
In 1947 The French army committed the My Trach Massacre among Vietnamese civilians.
The massacre occurred in My Trach Village from 12 pm to 2 am on 29 November 1947.
In this operation, 326 houses were burnt, many women were raped before being killed.
Over 300 civilian residents in My Trach Village were killed,
of which 170 were women and were 157 children, many entire families were massacred.
Nearly half of the village residents were killed in this massacre
.
The Viet Minh handed the French a stunning military defeat,
and on 7 May 1954, the French Union garrison surrendered.
Independence was granted to Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.
Insomnia//Vitamin String Quartet
(instrumental)
1964-1973: USA - Vietnam War
The U.S. government viewed involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam
and part of their wider strategy of containment.
Explosive news reports of American military abuses, such as the 1968 My Lai Massacre, brought new attention to anti-war protests.
The My Lai Massacre was the mass murder of 347-504 unarmed citizens in South Vietnam
on March 16, 1968, conducted by a unit of the United States Army.
All of the victims were civilians and most were women, children (including babies), and elderly people.
Many of the victims were raped, beaten, tortured, and some of the bodies were found mutilated.
While 26 US soldiers were initially charged with criminal offenses for their actions at My Lai,
only William Calley was convicted of killing 22 villagers.
Originally given a life sentence, he served three and a half years under house arrest.
The protests ended with the final withdrawal of troops after the Paris Peace Accords were signed in 1973.
South Vietnam was left to defend itself alone when the fighting resumed.
On April 30th 1974 Saigon fell.
North and South Vietnam were reunified the following year.
The Lost Loves//Young Heretics
What happened to all the love
That got left behind
By the bodies who made the love
But who could not withstand time
Who's counting up the nights
The love got pushed aside
All the lovers lose the daylight
When there is nowhere safe to hide
The harder we fight
The violent it seems
We are not too young to die
But we are all too vain to see
That we are the lost loves
We are the lost loves
Uprisings in the Soviet Union
1953 Uprising of the people of East-Berlin against Stalinist style government, Soviet troops start to fire into the crowds (Uprising violently suppressed)
1956 Hungary revolts against the government and its Soviet-imposed policies, Soviet troops invade (Soviet victory, revolution crushed)
1956 Polish People revolt against their communist government, Internal Security Corps fired at the protesting civilians (Communist military victory)
1968 The Prague Spring, reformists try for political liberalization, Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact members invade (Moscow Protocol, Soviet military presence until 1991)
Papillon//Editors
Darling, just don't put down your guns yet
If there really was a God here
He'd have raised a hand by now
Now darling, you're born, get old and die here
Well that's quite enough for me,
We'll find our own way home somehow.
No sense of doubt, for what you could achieve,
I'd help you out, I've seen the life you wish to leave.
Oh well it kicks like a sleep twitch
You will choke, choke on the air you try to breathe
It kicks like a sleep twitch
All That Numbs You//Thomas Feiner&Anywhen
Such a wonderful life when it's weighing you down
Are you in control?
The suburban reign always stays the same
Like the hollow smile cracking up your face
Take your battered soul, wear it as a crown
All that numbs you
Run a thousand miles, 'till you hit the ground
All that numbs you now
And days roll into one and the same on you
The world revolving around your spinning head
Make the fences high
Make the blinds go down on the world outside
Maybe the day will come
When you wake up not feeling anything
No more tears and no more pain
Take your bleeding heart, wear it on your sleeve
All that numbs you
Stare into the sun, the blind relief
All that numbs you now
As the years roll into one, only numbers change
The world revolving around your spinning head
Take your battered soul, wear it as a crown
All that numbs you
Stare into the sun, the blind relief
All that numbs you now
As the years roll into one, only numbers change
The world revolving around your spinning head
Until today no one knows exactly how many people died trying to cross the iron curtain into a non-soviet country.
At the Berlin Wall alone at least 251 people were killed or died attempting to escape between August 13, 1961 and November 9, 1989.
One of the most remembered cases is that of Peter Fechter:
In 1962 Peter Fechter and his friend Helmut Kulbeit attempted to escape to West Berlin
When both reached the wall, guards fired at them.
Although Kulbeik succeeded in crossing the wall, Fechter, still on the wall,
was shot in the pelvis in plain view of hundreds of witnesses.
He fell back into the death-strip on the Eastern side,
where he remained in view of Western onlookers, including journalists.
Despite his screams, he received no medical assistance either from the East or the West side.
Western bystanders were prevented at gunpoint from assisting him.
The U.S military had orders to stand firm and do nothing so as not to
provoke the Soviet military on the other site.
He bled to death after approximately one hour later.
As a result of his death, hundreds in West Berlin formed a spontaneous demonstration, shouting "Murderers!" at the border guards.
Fade Together//Franz Ferdinand
So far away
Come on I'll take you far away
Let's get away
Come on let's make a get away
If we get away
You know we might just stay away
So stay awake
Oh, why the hell should I stay awake?
When you're far away
Oh god you are so far away
I looked at your wall
Saw that old passport photograph
I look like I've just jumped the Berlin Wall
Berlin I love you
I'm starting to fade
The Windmills of Your Mind//Dusty Springfield
Round, like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel.
Never ending or beginning,
On an ever spinning wheel
Like a snowball down a mountain
Or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that's turning
Running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes on its face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind
Like a tunnel that you follow
To a tunnel of its own
Down a hollow to a cavern
Where the sun has never shone
Like a door that keeps revolving
In a half forgotten dream
Or the ripples from a pebble
Someone tosses in a stream.
Keys that jingle in your pocket
Words that jangle in your head
Is the sound of distant drumming
Just the fingers of your hand?
Pictures hanging in a hallway
And a fragment of a song
Half remembered names and faces
But to whom do they belong?
When you knew that it was over
You were suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning
to the color of his hair
Time Passing//Max Richter
"Both elbows on the table, I covered my face with my palms.
Inside that darkness, I saw rain falling on the sea.
Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no-one there to see it. "
There is an Ocean//Donovan
All is as it was and
ever more shall be,
Though they try to tell us it's not so.
Over all the earth there's nothing new to see,
Excepting every seed will newly grow.
Innocence in childhood false men misconstrue
To be years
of darkness spent in shade,
Denying childhood's vision
of the God of Love,
So that Truth be turned about and
untruth made,
And untruth made.
There is a reason for every season
Of change within ourselves.
To navigate, re-appreciate
And know the flow within ourselves.
The deliverance from Deluge, the good dry land,
The one and only Haven, the rock of Man
Is but the closing of an eyelid away.
There is a season,
ooh,
There is an ocean, ooh,
There is a silence,
ooh.
Sunday Bloody Sunday//Lisa Bresnan
I can't believe the news today
Oh, I can't close my eyes and make it go away
How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long, how long
Cause tonight
We can be as one
tonight
Broken bottles under children's feet
Bodies strewn across the dead end street
But I won't heed the battle call
It puts my back up
Puts my back up against the wall
And the battle's just begun
There's many lost, but tell me who has won
The trench is dug within our hearts
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart
Wipe the tears from your eyes
Wipe your tears away
And it's true we are immune
When fact is fiction and TV reality
And today the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die
The real battle just begun
To claim the victory Jesus won
On
Sunday bloody Sunday, yeah
Sunday bloody Sunday
1968-1998: The Troubles
Ethno-political conflict in Northern Ireland.
Violence extended to England, the Republic of Ireland, and mainland Europe.
Bloody Sunday was an incident on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland,
in which twenty-six unarmed civil rights protesters and bystanders were shot by soldiers of the British Army.
Despite a cease-fire order from the army HQ, over a hundred rounds were fired directly into the fleeing crowds.
Twelve more were killed, many of them as they attempted to aid the fallen.
Between 1969 and 2001, 3,526 people were killed as a result of the Troubles
This Open Heart//A Northern Chorus
The poems strewn
Across the floor
They’re out of tune
With every chord
And one reads ‘lay down
Inside this open heart’
And where’s this heart of which it speaks?
It must be soaring skies revealed
For it’s been fooled for the last time
Or so it would seem
And I can't lay down
Inside this open heart
With these crazed eyes
Of aftermath
Tell me what happens when the planets align?
Will torrid skies collapse our hearts?
Will jealous moons come crashing down
Into the ocean floor?
For it’s been fooled for the last time
Or so it would seem
And it’s been fooled for the last time
Or so it would seem
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
The protests were sparked by mass mourning over the death
of former CPC General Secretary Hu Yaobang,
a Party official who had been purged for his support of political liberalization.
The whole movement lasted for seven weeks.
On 4 May, approximately 100,000 students and
workers marched in Beijing making demands for free media and a formal dialogue
between the authorities and student-elected representatives.
The protests were violently suppressed by the military on June 4th and 5th by
shooting into the crowds and crushing people under the treads of their tanks
Some of the early estimates were based on reports of a figure of 2,600 from the Chinese Red Cross.
The official Chinese government figure is 241 dead, including soldiers, and 7,000 wounded.
Soviet files estimated 10,000 dead (including civilians and soldiers), NATO intelligence estimates 7,000 deaths.
Old Soul Song (For the New World Order)//Bright Eyes
Grey light, new day leaks through the window
And some old soul song comes on the alarm clock radio
We walk the forty blocks to the middle
Of the place we heard where everything would be
And there were barricades to keep us off the street
But the crowd kept pushing forward
Until they swallowed the police
Yeah, they went wild
We left before the dust had time to settle
And all the broken glass swept off the avenue
And on the way home I held your camera like a bible
Just wishing so bad that it held some kind of truth
And I stood nervous next to you in the dark room
You dropped the paper in the water
And it all begins to bloom
Yeah, they go wild
And just when I get so lonesome I can't speak
I see some flowers on a hillside
Like a wall of new TVs
Yeah, they go wild
Nude//Radiohead
Don't get any big ideas
They're not going to happen
You paint yourself white
And fill up with noise
But there'll be something missing
Now that you've found it, it's gone
Now that you feel it, you don't
You've gone off the rails
So don't get any big ideas
They're not going to happen
You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking
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1992-1995: The Bosnian War
The Bosnian war was a result of the breakup of Yugoslavia.
The main belligerents were the forces of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
and those of the self-proclaimed Bosnian Serb and Bosnian Croat entities within Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska and Herzeg-Bosnia.
Republika Srpska and Herzeg-Bosnia enjoyed substantial political and military backing from Serbia and Croatia respectively.
Serb and Croat forces performed ethnic cleansing of their territories planned by their political leadership
to create ethnically pure states (Republika Srpska and Herzeg-Bosnia).
Furthermore, Serb forces committed genocide in Srebrenica at the end of the war.
The most recent research places the number of killed people at around 100,000-110,000
and the number displaced at over 2.2 million, making it
the most devastating conflict in Europe since the end of World War II.
The Srebrenica genocide refers to the July 1995 killing of more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys,
in and around the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
by units of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of General Ratko Mladić.
The Srebrenica massacre is the largest mass murder in Europe since World War II.
Sarajevo//Max Richter
(instrumental)
Ruled by Secrecy//Muse
repress and restrain
still the pressure and the pain
wash the blood off your hands
change in the air
and they'll hide everywhere
and no one knows who's in control
you're working so hard
and you're never in charge
your death creates success
and you'll build and suppress
Timeline of al-Quaeda attacks (excluding attacks that took place during the Iraq civil starting in 2003)
1993 World Trade Center bombing (6 dead, over 100 wounded)
1998 Bombing of the U.S embassies in Nairobi, Kenya (200 dead, over 5,000 wounded)
2001 World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks (3000 dead, over 6000 wounded)
2002 Bali bombings (202 dead, 204 wounded)
2003 Istanbul bombings (57 dead, 700 wounded)
2004 Philippines, SuperFerry 14 bombing (116 dead)
2004 Madrid train bombings 911 days after the 9/11 attacks (191 dead, 2050 injured)
2005 London transport bombings (56 dead, around 700 injured)
2005 Egypt, Sharm el-Sheikh attacks (88 dead, around 150 injured)
2005 Jordan, Amman hotel bombing(60 dead, 115 injured)
2007 Algeria, Algiers bombings (33 dead, 118 wounded)
2008 Afghanistan, Kandahar bombing (more than 100 dead, unknown amount of injured)
2008 Pakistan, Danish embassy bombings (8 dead, 24 wounded)
2009 US, Little Rock recruiting office shooting (1 dead, 1 injured)
2009 Afghanistan, Khost Suicide Bomber (8 dead, 6 wounded)
Hunting for Witches//Bloc Party
I was sitting on the roof of my house
With a shotgun
And a six pack of beers
The newscaster says the enemy's among us
As bombs explode on the 30 bus
Kill your middle class indecision
Now is not the time for liberal thought
In the '90s, optimistic as a teen
Now its terror Airplanes crash into towers
The Daily Mail says the enemy's among us
Taking our women, and taking our jobs
The reasonable fool is being drowned out
By the non-stop baying, baying, baying for blood
I was an ordinary man with ordinary desire
I watched TV, it informed me
I was an ordinary man with ordinary desire
And there must be accountability
Desperate and misinformed
Fear will keep us all in place
So I go hunting for witches
I go hunting for witches
Heads are going to roll
I go hunting for
Desperate and misinformed
Fear will keep us all in place
War All The Time//Thursday
If the sun doesn't rise
We'll replace it with an H-bomb explosion
A painted jail cell of light in the sky
Like three-mile-island nightmares on TVs that sing us to sleep
They burn on and on like an oil field
Or a memory of what it felt like
To burn on and on and not just fade away
All those nights in the basement, the kids are still screaming
On and on and on and on
And we’re blowing in the wind
We don’t know where to land
So we kiss like little kids
We used to be very tall buildings
We’ve been falling for so long
Now your eyes are a sign on the edge of town
They offer a welcome when you are leaving
War all of the time
In the shadow of the New York skyline
We grew up too fast, falling apart
Like the ashes of American flags
The pieces fall it’s like a last day parade
And the fires in our streets start to rage,
So wave to those people who long to wave back
from the fabric of a flag that sang "love all of the time"
War all the time, war all the time
All of the time
2003-2010: The Iraq war
A military campaign led by the United States and the United Kingdom against Iraq under Saddam Hussein.
The legality of the invasion and occupation of Iraq has been widely debated, since no UN mandate had been given.
US and UK leaders floated many reasons for the war on Iraq before it began.
But Iraq's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction - in defiance of United Nations resolutions
and alleged links to al-Quaida - were among the most frequently mentioned.
Although some degraded remnants of misplaced or abandoned chemical weapons from before
1991 were found, they were not the weapons which had been the main argument to justify the invasion.
No proof of contact to al-Quaida was found either.
The February 15, 2003, worldwide protests drew millions of people across the world.
This demonstration was listed by the 2004 Guinness Book of Records as the largest mass protest movement in history.
The invasion of Iraq led to an occupation and the eventual capture of President Saddam,
who was later tried in an Iraqi court of law and executed by the new Iraqi government.
WikiLeaks released Classified Iraq war logs that recorded 104,924 Iraqi deaths, including 92,003 civilian deaths.
Where's Is My Mind?//Vitamin String Quartet
(instrumental)
Shiva//The Antlers
Suddenly every machine stopped at once
And the monitors beeped the last time
Hundreds of thousands of hospital beds
And all of them empty but mine
Well, I was lying down with my feet in the air
Completely unable to move
The bed was misshaped, and awkward and tall
And clearly intended for you
My hair started growing, my face became yours
My femur was breaking in half
The sensation was scissors and too much to scream
So instead, I just started to laugh
Suddenly every machine stopped at once
And the monitors beeped the last time
Hundreds of thousands of hospital beds
And all of them empty but mine
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O Children//Nick Cave&The Bad Seeds
Pass me that lovely little gun
My dear, my darling one
The cleaners are coming, one by one
You don't even want to let them start
They are knocking now upon your door
They measure the room, they know the score
They're mopping up the butcher's floor
Of your broken little heart
Forgive us now for what we've done
It started out as a bit of fun
Here, take these before we run away
The keys to the gulag
We have the answer to all your fears
It's short, it's simple, it's crystal clear
It's round about, it's somewhere here
Lost amongst our winnings
The cleaners have done their job on you
They're hip to it, man, they're in the groove
They've hosed you down, you're good as new
And they're lining up to inspect you
Poor old Jim's white as a ghost
He's found the answer that we lost
We're all weeping now, weeping because
There ain't nothing we can do to protect you
Hey little train! We're all jumping on
The train that goes to the Kingdom
We're happy, Ma, we're having fun
And the train ain't even left the station
Hey, little train! Wait for me!
I once was blind but now I see
Have you left a seat for me?
Is that such a stretch of the imagination?
Hey little train! Wait for me!
I was held in chains but now I'm free
I'm hanging in there, don't you see
In this process of elimination
Hey little train! We're all jumping on
The train that goes to the Kingdom
We're happy, Ma, we're having fun
It's beyond my wildest expectation
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Shanti Shanti Shanti
credit for cover: ShadowPsychos @ deviantart
I also re-uploaded my other FST :
please follow this link to view the songs, lyrics and download links.
Notes:
I finished this FST 3 months ago already but didn't get a chance to upload it until today.
This is my second Hetalia FST and like with my first one a lot of thought went into it.
Originally the timeline was supposed to be 1900-2000, (the horrors of the 20th century) but I changed that later on and applied it more to political stuff that influenced me and my generation personally.
I was 6 when the Berlin Wall fell and I remember my parents waking me up and carrying me in front of the TV saying "the wall is falling, the wall is falling".
Later I remember the iconic picture of the tank men on all news paper front pages.
(The image is still banned in China, tank man is thought to have been executed).
The first conflict I followed in the news was the Bosnian War.
These are only a few examples.
This FST was made with several questions in mind like:
"What happens to the personification of a country if its own people start killing its own people?"
"Does it have any influence over politics? If yes, how much?"
"Do personifications share the moral values of humans or are they different having lived hundreds of years?"
"What needs to happen so a personification dies? What makes it stay?"
"To what extend does a country share the pain of its people?"
"How does time flow for these century old personifications?"
"Having seen countless conflicts and times in their time, what can/does a country do when it realizes a new war is going to start due to human politics?"
"Does a country always carry the guilt of its people?"
"What is the soul of a being like that sees unimaginable things happen maybe not only one time but hundreds of times in its lifespan and yet knows that its unable to protect those beings that it personifies?"
etc.
The songs and lyrics were selected with care.
The idea to make an FST like this came to me while listening to the eerie version of "Always from my mind" which instantly reminded me of the relationship between the two Koreas, by chance I listened to "O Children"a little later and I felt it was providing me with some answers to questions I had thought about while also raising some new ones.
Warnings:
This FST does in no way want to point a finger at any mentioned country, it is a subjective and incomplete collection of tragic events starting with the aftermath of WW2.
To cut a long story short I hope this FST will make you think and/or that you will at least be able to enjoy the music.
Thank your for reading and please be so kind to leave some feedback if you decide to download.
New updated DL link: http://db.tt/dueLiia4
(let me know if the link expires and I will upload it again, since I'm no longer active on this journal please do so here: yveinthesky.tumblr.com/ask)
(if files don't join automatically after extracting them use hj split for windows or mac. Let me know if this doesn't work out but it's really easy peasy)
Timeline 1945-2010
War Adagio//London Symphony Orchestra
Vergangenheitsbewältigung:
is a composite German word that describes processes of dealing with the past
(Vergangenheit = past; Bewältigung = coming to terms with, mastering),
which is perhaps best rendered in English as "struggle to come to terms with the past".
Machine Gun//Portishead
I saw a saviour, a saviour come my way
I thought I'd see it in the cold light of day
But now I realise that I'm only for me
If only I could see you return myself to me
And recognise the poison in my heart
There is no other place, no one else I face
The remedy will agree with how I feel
Here in my reflecting, what more can I say?
For I am guilty for the voice that I obey
Too scared to sacrifice the choice chosen for me
If only I could see you return myself to me
And recognise the poison in my heart
There is no other place, no one else I face
The remedy to agree with how I feel
I Am The Killer//Thursday
Life runs through this trade
I am no killer
But I still hide my face
In the coming days
I wake up every morning
From the same dream
And then I kill it
But you can't change the letters when the ink dries
I woke up on the sidewalk and everything just changed
Now the lights are blinking but I can't see anything
Everything's falling part
Crumpled paper
Crushed tin cans
Broken bottles
Paper scraps
We all look the same
But I am the killer
During the second world war 2 Germany ordered, organized and condoned numerous war crimes,
the most notable of these was The Holocaust.
The genocide of approximately
six million European Jews during World War II,
a programme of systematic state-sponsored extermination
by Nazi Germany throughout Nazi-occupied territory.
Some scholars maintain that the definition of the Holocaust
should also include the Nazis' genocide
of millions of people in other groups,
including Romani (more commonly known in English by the exonym "Gypsy"),
Soviet prisoners of war, Polish and Soviet civilians, homosexuals,
people with disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses and other political and religious opponents,
which occurred whether they were of German or non-German ethnic origin.
By this definition, the total number of Holocaust victims would be between 11 million and 17 million people
Dance little Liar//Arctic Monkeys
I heard the truth was built to bend
A mechanism to suspend the guilt
Is what you are requiring still
You've got to dance little liar
And the clean coming will hurt
And you can never get it spotless
When there's dirt beneath the dirt
The liar take a lot less time
I'm sure its clear and plain to me
Its not an alibi you need just yet
Oh no its something for those beads of sweat
Yes that we'll get you back to normal
And after you have dabbed the patch you’ll grieve
And then proceed to scratch the varnish off
That newly added calmness
So as not to raise any alarms too soon
The liar takes a lot less
Time to decide on his saunter
Have you got itchy bones?
And in all your time alone
Can you hack your mind being riddled
with the wrong memories?
42//Vitamin String Quartet(cov.Coldplay)
(instrumental)
Those who are dead are not dead
They’re just living in my head
And since I fell for that spell
I am living there as well
Oh..
Unit 731 was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit
of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation
during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and World War II.
It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japanese personnel.
After the war, the U.S. believed that the research data was valuable and they
did not want other nations, particularly the Soviet Union, to acquire data on biological weapons.
Some former members of Unit 731 became part of the Japanese medical establishment.
Dr. Masaji Kitano led Japan's largest pharmaceutical company, the Green Cross.
Others headed U.S.-backed medical schools or worked for the Japanese health ministry.
Shirō Ishii moved to Maryland to work on bio-weapons research.
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After WWII, no Italian war criminal was brought to court for crimes in Africa,
France, the Balkans and on the Eastern Front,
though more than 1,200 Italian officials were indicted by the relevant authorities.
It was thanks to the complicity of the British Colonial authorities that Italian War criminals did not face
Nuremberg style prosecution for their crimes.
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After World War II, many Austrians sought comfort in the idea of Austria as "the Nazis' first victim".
The Austrian Government, which was surrounded by the Soviet zone,
was recognised by the Western Allies in October 1945 after some doubts that they could be Stalin's puppets.
Thereby the creation of a separate Western Austrian government and the division of the country could be avoided.
Austria, in general, was treated as though it had been originally invaded by Germany and liberated by the Allies.
Lacking outside pressure for political reform, factions of Austrian society tried for a long time to advance
the view that the Anschluss was only an annexation at the point of a bayonet and denied their countries own war crimes
and existence of concentration camps.
For the first time in the history of the European Union diplomatic sanctions were imposed on a member state in 1999.
This was in reaction to Joerg Haider's extreme right-wing party making it into the Austrian government.
All bilateral relations to other EU countries were frozen for 6 months.
Haunted Home//David Fonseca
You want to drink my soul
'Till your heart is full
What happens when it's full and it splashes?
You've built all these rooftops
And painted them all in blue
If all this set just burns up will you paint the ashes?
Do you really want to see?
Because I'll let you in
With me
You shiver when the wind blows
Through doors that lost their keys
There's too little to rescue, too little to hang on to
I thought that maybe we could try to
Clear and rebuild this haunted home
I'll be glad to help you just tell me what to do
Why don't you tell me what to do?
Maybe you're scared too
I've been here before
Next thing you'll see
You'll feel
So small
I will disappoint you
And I don't care if I do
I belong to those who got shattered, battered,
Bruises and scars that I've hidden you could never heal
This grey house where I come from
Some great love will tear it down
If you no longer love me why should it matter?
Tell me why should it matter?
I can't ask you to stay
I can't find the words to say
Why don't you just leave?
Just leave
Francoist Spain refers to a period of Spanish history between 1939 and 1975
when Spain was under the authoritarian dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
Franco had come into power through the Spanish Civil War (1936-39)
During the Spanish Civil War Italy sent 80,000 men to Franco's nationalistic cause.
The Permanent Commission of the European Parliament "firmly"
condemned in a resolution unanimously adopted in March 2006 the "multiple and serious violations"
of human rights committed in Spain under the Francoist regime from 1939 to 1975
.
A law is supposed to enforce an official recognition of the crimes committed
against civilians during the Francoist rule and organize under state supervision the search for mass graves.
Elephant Gun//Beirut
If I was young, I'd flee this town
I'd bury my dreams underground
As did I, we drink to die, we drink tonight
And it rips through the silence of our camp at night
And it rips through the night
And it rips through the silence of our camp at night
And it rips through the silence, all that is left is all that i hide
The Gulag spanned nearly four decades of Soviet and East European history
and affected millions of individuals. Its cultural impact was enormous.
First established in 1919 the camps were officially closed in 1960.
Gulag, were forced-labor prison camps for prisoners of war or political prisoners, in the USSR.
More than 14 million people passed through the Gulag from 1929 to 1953,
with a further 6 to 7 million being deported and exiled to remote areas of the USSR.
The death toll for this same time period is estimated at 1.6 million casualties.
Most Gulag inmates were not political prisoners, although the political prisoner population was always significant.
People could be imprisoned in a Gulag camp for crimes such as petty theft,
unexcused absences from work, and anti-government jokes.
Over 30 million are estimated to have died in gulags across the soviet union.
The Radiance//Linkin Park
"We knew the world would not be the same.
A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita.
Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty,
and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form, and says,
'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'
I suppose we all thought that, one way or another."
-Robert Oppenheimer about the first artificial nuclear explosion on July 16, 1945
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1947-1991: The Cold War
Political conflict and military conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States.
Millions died in the superpowers' proxy wars around the globe, most notably in Southeast Asia.
The Korean War established proxy war as one way that the nuclear superpowers indirectly conducted their rivalry in third-party countries.
The NSC-68 Containment Policy extended the cold war from occupied Europe to the rest of the world
Bullet the Blue Sky//Tunnel Fishin
In the howling wind comes a stinging rain
See it driving nails
Into the souls on the tree of pain
From the firefly, a red orange glow
See the face of fear
Running scared in the valley below
In the locust wind comes a rattle and hum
Jacob wrestled the angel
And the angel was overcome
You plant a demon seed
You raise a flower of fire
See them burning crosses
See the flames higher and higher
Bullet the blue sky
Bullet the blue
This guy comes up to me
His face red like a rose on a thorn bush
Like all the colors of a royal flush
And he's peeling off those dollar bills
Slapping them down
One hundred, two hundred
And I can see those fighter planes
Across the mud huts where the children sleep
And through the walls you hear the city groan
Outside is America
Across the field you see the sky ripped open
See the rain through a gaping wound
Pounding on the women and children
Who run
Into the arms
Of America
1950-1953: The Korean War
At the Potsdam Conference (July-August 1945), the Allies unilaterally decided to divide Korea,without consulting the Koreans.
In December 1945, Korea was administered by a US-USSR Joint Commission, as agreed at the Moscow Conference (1945).
The Koreans were excluded from the talks
.
In 1950 conflicts escalated dramatically when North Korean forces
attacked South Korea, triggering the Korean War.
In occupied areas, North Korean Army political officers
purged South Korean society of its intelligentsia
by assassinating every educated person-academic, governmental, religious-
who might lead resistance against the North.
United Nations-allied South Korean military killed between 200,000-1,200,000
alleged communists and suspected sympathizers in 1950 (The Bodo League massacre).
Both sides, especially the South Korean one committed many other massacres of unarmed citizens,
children and women until the end of the war.
An armistice was signed in 1953 ending hostilities and effectively making the division permanent.
The death toll of the war ranges between 2,5 and 3,5 million.
Always on my mind//Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
Maybe I didn't treat you
Quite as good as I should have
Maybe I didn't love you
Quite as often as I could have
Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time
Maybe I didn't hold you
All those lonely, lonely times
You were always on my mind
Celebration Guns//Stars
Are the beating drums
Celebration guns
The thunder and the laughter
The last thing they remember
Then the next day
How will you know your enemy
By their colour or your fear
One by one
We can cage them in your freedom
Make them all disappear
Six hundred sixty six
Hundred sixty days
Two guards one uncharged
This morning's paper
Ink stains my fingers
My hands grow darker everyday
Goodnight, sleep light, stranger
1946-1954: France - Vietnam War
The North Vietnamese government viewed the war as a colonial war, fought initially against France,
backed by the U.S., and later against South Vietnam, which it regarded as a U.S. puppet state.
In 1947 The French army committed the My Trach Massacre among Vietnamese civilians.
The massacre occurred in My Trach Village from 12 pm to 2 am on 29 November 1947.
In this operation, 326 houses were burnt, many women were raped before being killed.
Over 300 civilian residents in My Trach Village were killed,
of which 170 were women and were 157 children, many entire families were massacred.
Nearly half of the village residents were killed in this massacre
.
The Viet Minh handed the French a stunning military defeat,
and on 7 May 1954, the French Union garrison surrendered.
Independence was granted to Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.
Insomnia//Vitamin String Quartet
(instrumental)
1964-1973: USA - Vietnam War
The U.S. government viewed involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam
and part of their wider strategy of containment.
Explosive news reports of American military abuses, such as the 1968 My Lai Massacre, brought new attention to anti-war protests.
The My Lai Massacre was the mass murder of 347-504 unarmed citizens in South Vietnam
on March 16, 1968, conducted by a unit of the United States Army.
All of the victims were civilians and most were women, children (including babies), and elderly people.
Many of the victims were raped, beaten, tortured, and some of the bodies were found mutilated.
While 26 US soldiers were initially charged with criminal offenses for their actions at My Lai,
only William Calley was convicted of killing 22 villagers.
Originally given a life sentence, he served three and a half years under house arrest.
The protests ended with the final withdrawal of troops after the Paris Peace Accords were signed in 1973.
South Vietnam was left to defend itself alone when the fighting resumed.
On April 30th 1974 Saigon fell.
North and South Vietnam were reunified the following year.
The Lost Loves//Young Heretics
What happened to all the love
That got left behind
By the bodies who made the love
But who could not withstand time
Who's counting up the nights
The love got pushed aside
All the lovers lose the daylight
When there is nowhere safe to hide
The harder we fight
The violent it seems
We are not too young to die
But we are all too vain to see
That we are the lost loves
We are the lost loves
Uprisings in the Soviet Union
1953 Uprising of the people of East-Berlin against Stalinist style government, Soviet troops start to fire into the crowds (Uprising violently suppressed)
1956 Hungary revolts against the government and its Soviet-imposed policies, Soviet troops invade (Soviet victory, revolution crushed)
1956 Polish People revolt against their communist government, Internal Security Corps fired at the protesting civilians (Communist military victory)
1968 The Prague Spring, reformists try for political liberalization, Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact members invade (Moscow Protocol, Soviet military presence until 1991)
Papillon//Editors
Darling, just don't put down your guns yet
If there really was a God here
He'd have raised a hand by now
Now darling, you're born, get old and die here
Well that's quite enough for me,
We'll find our own way home somehow.
No sense of doubt, for what you could achieve,
I'd help you out, I've seen the life you wish to leave.
Oh well it kicks like a sleep twitch
You will choke, choke on the air you try to breathe
It kicks like a sleep twitch
All That Numbs You//Thomas Feiner&Anywhen
Such a wonderful life when it's weighing you down
Are you in control?
The suburban reign always stays the same
Like the hollow smile cracking up your face
Take your battered soul, wear it as a crown
All that numbs you
Run a thousand miles, 'till you hit the ground
All that numbs you now
And days roll into one and the same on you
The world revolving around your spinning head
Make the fences high
Make the blinds go down on the world outside
Maybe the day will come
When you wake up not feeling anything
No more tears and no more pain
Take your bleeding heart, wear it on your sleeve
All that numbs you
Stare into the sun, the blind relief
All that numbs you now
As the years roll into one, only numbers change
The world revolving around your spinning head
Take your battered soul, wear it as a crown
All that numbs you
Stare into the sun, the blind relief
All that numbs you now
As the years roll into one, only numbers change
The world revolving around your spinning head
Until today no one knows exactly how many people died trying to cross the iron curtain into a non-soviet country.
At the Berlin Wall alone at least 251 people were killed or died attempting to escape between August 13, 1961 and November 9, 1989.
One of the most remembered cases is that of Peter Fechter:
In 1962 Peter Fechter and his friend Helmut Kulbeit attempted to escape to West Berlin
When both reached the wall, guards fired at them.
Although Kulbeik succeeded in crossing the wall, Fechter, still on the wall,
was shot in the pelvis in plain view of hundreds of witnesses.
He fell back into the death-strip on the Eastern side,
where he remained in view of Western onlookers, including journalists.
Despite his screams, he received no medical assistance either from the East or the West side.
Western bystanders were prevented at gunpoint from assisting him.
The U.S military had orders to stand firm and do nothing so as not to
provoke the Soviet military on the other site.
He bled to death after approximately one hour later.
As a result of his death, hundreds in West Berlin formed a spontaneous demonstration, shouting "Murderers!" at the border guards.
Fade Together//Franz Ferdinand
So far away
Come on I'll take you far away
Let's get away
Come on let's make a get away
If we get away
You know we might just stay away
So stay awake
Oh, why the hell should I stay awake?
When you're far away
Oh god you are so far away
I looked at your wall
Saw that old passport photograph
I look like I've just jumped the Berlin Wall
Berlin I love you
I'm starting to fade
The Windmills of Your Mind//Dusty Springfield
Round, like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel.
Never ending or beginning,
On an ever spinning wheel
Like a snowball down a mountain
Or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that's turning
Running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes on its face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind
Like a tunnel that you follow
To a tunnel of its own
Down a hollow to a cavern
Where the sun has never shone
Like a door that keeps revolving
In a half forgotten dream
Or the ripples from a pebble
Someone tosses in a stream.
Keys that jingle in your pocket
Words that jangle in your head
Is the sound of distant drumming
Just the fingers of your hand?
Pictures hanging in a hallway
And a fragment of a song
Half remembered names and faces
But to whom do they belong?
When you knew that it was over
You were suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning
to the color of his hair
Time Passing//Max Richter
"Both elbows on the table, I covered my face with my palms.
Inside that darkness, I saw rain falling on the sea.
Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no-one there to see it. "
There is an Ocean//Donovan
All is as it was and
ever more shall be,
Though they try to tell us it's not so.
Over all the earth there's nothing new to see,
Excepting every seed will newly grow.
Innocence in childhood false men misconstrue
To be years
of darkness spent in shade,
Denying childhood's vision
of the God of Love,
So that Truth be turned about and
untruth made,
And untruth made.
There is a reason for every season
Of change within ourselves.
To navigate, re-appreciate
And know the flow within ourselves.
The deliverance from Deluge, the good dry land,
The one and only Haven, the rock of Man
Is but the closing of an eyelid away.
There is a season,
ooh,
There is an ocean, ooh,
There is a silence,
ooh.
Sunday Bloody Sunday//Lisa Bresnan
I can't believe the news today
Oh, I can't close my eyes and make it go away
How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long, how long
Cause tonight
We can be as one
tonight
Broken bottles under children's feet
Bodies strewn across the dead end street
But I won't heed the battle call
It puts my back up
Puts my back up against the wall
And the battle's just begun
There's many lost, but tell me who has won
The trench is dug within our hearts
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart
Wipe the tears from your eyes
Wipe your tears away
And it's true we are immune
When fact is fiction and TV reality
And today the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die
The real battle just begun
To claim the victory Jesus won
On
Sunday bloody Sunday, yeah
Sunday bloody Sunday
1968-1998: The Troubles
Ethno-political conflict in Northern Ireland.
Violence extended to England, the Republic of Ireland, and mainland Europe.
Bloody Sunday was an incident on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland,
in which twenty-six unarmed civil rights protesters and bystanders were shot by soldiers of the British Army.
Despite a cease-fire order from the army HQ, over a hundred rounds were fired directly into the fleeing crowds.
Twelve more were killed, many of them as they attempted to aid the fallen.
Between 1969 and 2001, 3,526 people were killed as a result of the Troubles
This Open Heart//A Northern Chorus
The poems strewn
Across the floor
They’re out of tune
With every chord
And one reads ‘lay down
Inside this open heart’
And where’s this heart of which it speaks?
It must be soaring skies revealed
For it’s been fooled for the last time
Or so it would seem
And I can't lay down
Inside this open heart
With these crazed eyes
Of aftermath
Tell me what happens when the planets align?
Will torrid skies collapse our hearts?
Will jealous moons come crashing down
Into the ocean floor?
For it’s been fooled for the last time
Or so it would seem
And it’s been fooled for the last time
Or so it would seem
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
The protests were sparked by mass mourning over the death
of former CPC General Secretary Hu Yaobang,
a Party official who had been purged for his support of political liberalization.
The whole movement lasted for seven weeks.
On 4 May, approximately 100,000 students and
workers marched in Beijing making demands for free media and a formal dialogue
between the authorities and student-elected representatives.
The protests were violently suppressed by the military on June 4th and 5th by
shooting into the crowds and crushing people under the treads of their tanks
Some of the early estimates were based on reports of a figure of 2,600 from the Chinese Red Cross.
The official Chinese government figure is 241 dead, including soldiers, and 7,000 wounded.
Soviet files estimated 10,000 dead (including civilians and soldiers), NATO intelligence estimates 7,000 deaths.
Old Soul Song (For the New World Order)//Bright Eyes
Grey light, new day leaks through the window
And some old soul song comes on the alarm clock radio
We walk the forty blocks to the middle
Of the place we heard where everything would be
And there were barricades to keep us off the street
But the crowd kept pushing forward
Until they swallowed the police
Yeah, they went wild
We left before the dust had time to settle
And all the broken glass swept off the avenue
And on the way home I held your camera like a bible
Just wishing so bad that it held some kind of truth
And I stood nervous next to you in the dark room
You dropped the paper in the water
And it all begins to bloom
Yeah, they go wild
And just when I get so lonesome I can't speak
I see some flowers on a hillside
Like a wall of new TVs
Yeah, they go wild
Nude//Radiohead
Don't get any big ideas
They're not going to happen
You paint yourself white
And fill up with noise
But there'll be something missing
Now that you've found it, it's gone
Now that you feel it, you don't
You've gone off the rails
So don't get any big ideas
They're not going to happen
You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking
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1992-1995: The Bosnian War
The Bosnian war was a result of the breakup of Yugoslavia.
The main belligerents were the forces of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
and those of the self-proclaimed Bosnian Serb and Bosnian Croat entities within Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska and Herzeg-Bosnia.
Republika Srpska and Herzeg-Bosnia enjoyed substantial political and military backing from Serbia and Croatia respectively.
Serb and Croat forces performed ethnic cleansing of their territories planned by their political leadership
to create ethnically pure states (Republika Srpska and Herzeg-Bosnia).
Furthermore, Serb forces committed genocide in Srebrenica at the end of the war.
The most recent research places the number of killed people at around 100,000-110,000
and the number displaced at over 2.2 million, making it
the most devastating conflict in Europe since the end of World War II.
The Srebrenica genocide refers to the July 1995 killing of more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys,
in and around the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
by units of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of General Ratko Mladić.
The Srebrenica massacre is the largest mass murder in Europe since World War II.
Sarajevo//Max Richter
(instrumental)
Ruled by Secrecy//Muse
repress and restrain
still the pressure and the pain
wash the blood off your hands
change in the air
and they'll hide everywhere
and no one knows who's in control
you're working so hard
and you're never in charge
your death creates success
and you'll build and suppress
Timeline of al-Quaeda attacks (excluding attacks that took place during the Iraq civil starting in 2003)
1993 World Trade Center bombing (6 dead, over 100 wounded)
1998 Bombing of the U.S embassies in Nairobi, Kenya (200 dead, over 5,000 wounded)
2001 World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks (3000 dead, over 6000 wounded)
2002 Bali bombings (202 dead, 204 wounded)
2003 Istanbul bombings (57 dead, 700 wounded)
2004 Philippines, SuperFerry 14 bombing (116 dead)
2004 Madrid train bombings 911 days after the 9/11 attacks (191 dead, 2050 injured)
2005 London transport bombings (56 dead, around 700 injured)
2005 Egypt, Sharm el-Sheikh attacks (88 dead, around 150 injured)
2005 Jordan, Amman hotel bombing(60 dead, 115 injured)
2007 Algeria, Algiers bombings (33 dead, 118 wounded)
2008 Afghanistan, Kandahar bombing (more than 100 dead, unknown amount of injured)
2008 Pakistan, Danish embassy bombings (8 dead, 24 wounded)
2009 US, Little Rock recruiting office shooting (1 dead, 1 injured)
2009 Afghanistan, Khost Suicide Bomber (8 dead, 6 wounded)
Hunting for Witches//Bloc Party
I was sitting on the roof of my house
With a shotgun
And a six pack of beers
The newscaster says the enemy's among us
As bombs explode on the 30 bus
Kill your middle class indecision
Now is not the time for liberal thought
In the '90s, optimistic as a teen
Now its terror Airplanes crash into towers
The Daily Mail says the enemy's among us
Taking our women, and taking our jobs
The reasonable fool is being drowned out
By the non-stop baying, baying, baying for blood
I was an ordinary man with ordinary desire
I watched TV, it informed me
I was an ordinary man with ordinary desire
And there must be accountability
Desperate and misinformed
Fear will keep us all in place
So I go hunting for witches
I go hunting for witches
Heads are going to roll
I go hunting for
Desperate and misinformed
Fear will keep us all in place
War All The Time//Thursday
If the sun doesn't rise
We'll replace it with an H-bomb explosion
A painted jail cell of light in the sky
Like three-mile-island nightmares on TVs that sing us to sleep
They burn on and on like an oil field
Or a memory of what it felt like
To burn on and on and not just fade away
All those nights in the basement, the kids are still screaming
On and on and on and on
And we’re blowing in the wind
We don’t know where to land
So we kiss like little kids
We used to be very tall buildings
We’ve been falling for so long
Now your eyes are a sign on the edge of town
They offer a welcome when you are leaving
War all of the time
In the shadow of the New York skyline
We grew up too fast, falling apart
Like the ashes of American flags
The pieces fall it’s like a last day parade
And the fires in our streets start to rage,
So wave to those people who long to wave back
from the fabric of a flag that sang "love all of the time"
War all the time, war all the time
All of the time
2003-2010: The Iraq war
A military campaign led by the United States and the United Kingdom against Iraq under Saddam Hussein.
The legality of the invasion and occupation of Iraq has been widely debated, since no UN mandate had been given.
US and UK leaders floated many reasons for the war on Iraq before it began.
But Iraq's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction - in defiance of United Nations resolutions
and alleged links to al-Quaida - were among the most frequently mentioned.
Although some degraded remnants of misplaced or abandoned chemical weapons from before
1991 were found, they were not the weapons which had been the main argument to justify the invasion.
No proof of contact to al-Quaida was found either.
The February 15, 2003, worldwide protests drew millions of people across the world.
This demonstration was listed by the 2004 Guinness Book of Records as the largest mass protest movement in history.
The invasion of Iraq led to an occupation and the eventual capture of President Saddam,
who was later tried in an Iraqi court of law and executed by the new Iraqi government.
WikiLeaks released Classified Iraq war logs that recorded 104,924 Iraqi deaths, including 92,003 civilian deaths.
Where's Is My Mind?//Vitamin String Quartet
(instrumental)
Shiva//The Antlers
Suddenly every machine stopped at once
And the monitors beeped the last time
Hundreds of thousands of hospital beds
And all of them empty but mine
Well, I was lying down with my feet in the air
Completely unable to move
The bed was misshaped, and awkward and tall
And clearly intended for you
My hair started growing, my face became yours
My femur was breaking in half
The sensation was scissors and too much to scream
So instead, I just started to laugh
Suddenly every machine stopped at once
And the monitors beeped the last time
Hundreds of thousands of hospital beds
And all of them empty but mine
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O Children//Nick Cave&The Bad Seeds
Pass me that lovely little gun
My dear, my darling one
The cleaners are coming, one by one
You don't even want to let them start
They are knocking now upon your door
They measure the room, they know the score
They're mopping up the butcher's floor
Of your broken little heart
Forgive us now for what we've done
It started out as a bit of fun
Here, take these before we run away
The keys to the gulag
We have the answer to all your fears
It's short, it's simple, it's crystal clear
It's round about, it's somewhere here
Lost amongst our winnings
The cleaners have done their job on you
They're hip to it, man, they're in the groove
They've hosed you down, you're good as new
And they're lining up to inspect you
Poor old Jim's white as a ghost
He's found the answer that we lost
We're all weeping now, weeping because
There ain't nothing we can do to protect you
Hey little train! We're all jumping on
The train that goes to the Kingdom
We're happy, Ma, we're having fun
And the train ain't even left the station
Hey, little train! Wait for me!
I once was blind but now I see
Have you left a seat for me?
Is that such a stretch of the imagination?
Hey little train! Wait for me!
I was held in chains but now I'm free
I'm hanging in there, don't you see
In this process of elimination
Hey little train! We're all jumping on
The train that goes to the Kingdom
We're happy, Ma, we're having fun
It's beyond my wildest expectation
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Shanti Shanti Shanti
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