Comparing Mumbai to 9/11 Diminishes Both Tragedies

Published on Thursday, December 4, 2008 by The Guardian/UK

by Priyamvada Gopal
(http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/12/04-7) 

We must not let ’9/11′ become a horrific status symbol signalling arrival into the fraternity of wounded superpowers.

Every brutal massacre of defenceless innocents must draw from us a kindred horror, whether it is Hiroshima 1945, Deir Yassin 1948, Sharpeville 1960, Halabja 1988, New York 2001, Gujarat 2002, or Haditha 2005. But each also bears the imprints of its place and time and we must commemorate them accordingly.