#POWER9TWELVE #TBT #TRENDING Paris - As if to prove that pens are mightier than swords, cartoonists around the world reacted to the cold-bloodied assassination of their colleagues at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo as only they can: with powerful drawings worth thousands of words. Defiant, angry, poignant, irreverent and sobering, their drawings united cartoonists in grief, tried to make sense of the nonsensical, and sent a shared message: We must not, will not and should not be silenced. Some drawings touched such a nerve they made one want to both laugh and cry. Cant sleep tonight, thoughts with my French cartooning colleagues, their families and loved ones, David Pope, cartoonist for The Canberra Times in Australia, wrote on his Twitter feed. His drawing showed the lifeless body of a cartoonist and a hooded gunman holding a still-smoking rifle and saying: He drew first. In India, cartoonist Manjul drew a plane exploding in a fireball into the Eiffel Tower, its pointy top redrawn as the nib of an ink pen. One of the most powerful drawings had no drawing. Christian Adams cartoon for The Daily Telegraph in London showed a completely blank space with the heading: Extremist approved cartoon. Another Telegraph cartoon showed one gunman saying to another: Be careful, they might have pens. The 12 people killed in the terrorist attack in Paris on Wednesday included some of Frances leading cartoonists. Revelling in provocation and taking pride in their freedom to poke fun at anyone - be they popes, presidents, public figures or the Prophet Muhammad - they also faced frequent outrage and threats because of their work. ------------ Paris - Messages of condolence, outrage and defiance over the Paris terrorist attack on a newspaper office spread quickly around the world on Wednesday with thousands of people taking to the streets to protest the killings and through use of the slogan Je Suis Charlie on social media. Many who poured into Place de la Republique in eastern Paris near the site of Wednesdays noontime attack waved papers, pencils and pens. Journalists led the march but most in the crowd were not from the media world, expressing solidarity and support of freedom of speech. Similar gatherings took place at Londons Trafalgar Square, in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, in Madrid, Brussels, Nice and elsewhere. ------------ Washington – US President Barack Obama on Wednesday condemned what he called the cowardly, evil attack against a satirical newspaper in Paris and offered US assistance to the French government. We will stand with the people of France, through this very, very difficult time, Obama told reporters in the Oval Office during an appearance with Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry. Obama said he has reached out to French President Francois Hollande and expected to talk to him soon about attack that killed a dozen people. ----------- The youngest of three French nationals being sought by police for a suspected Islamist militant attack that killed 12 people at a satirical magazine on Wednesday turned himself in to the police, an official at the Paris prosecutors office said. The hooded attackers stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a weekly known for lampooning Islam and other religions, in the most deadly militant attack on French soil in decades. French police were still in a huge manhunt for two of the attackers who escaped by car after shooting dead some of Frances top cartoonists as well as two police officers. Police issued a document to forces across the region saying the men were being sought for murder in relation to the Charlie Hebdo attack.
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 08:51:26 +0000
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