Museum provokes mixed emotions

By Geoff Kirbyson:  Ali Saeed, a victim of Ethiopia's Red Terror, reflects and prays in the Garden of Contemplation in the centre of the Canadian Museum for Human  Rights amidst towering windows, large boulders and tragic memories. Saeed was tortured. imprisoned and forced out of his homeland because of his efforts to support Freedom of Speech. His story will be one of many tragic events in history to be displayed in a installation at the museum this fall.  Ali Saeed graciously offered to take off his shoe  and sock to reveal a deep scar on the bottom of his left foot, the handiwork of a drunk prison guard in Ethiopia.  Read More…