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The 8th of May marks the Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives During the Second World War.
babylon newsroom urges its audience to commemorate those casualties that are often ignored, such as the 3 million victims of the 1943 Bengal Famine, partly caused by British colonial governance.
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In order to grasp a current view of Colombia with all the appropriate nuances and contradictions of the place, we had an extended conversation with Isabel Rincón Flórez, Political Scientist, (National University of Colombia), social worker (Restitution of land Unit, Colombia) and Master’s student in Peace, Development, and Conflict Resolution (University of Pamplona).
If we cannot outrun the end of history with the perpetual ruptures of a modernist avant garde, then perhaps the next logical course of action is to burrow under it