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In the country's first free elections, in 1999, Islamist parties scored 36 percent of the vote, and the islands burned as riots and terror attacks killed thousands.
This man ran across four lanes of freeway traffic in the middle of the night to bring me back to safety after a car accident that could have killed me.
It's been killed by television and then the internet.
My best friend had already been killed.
We were in a large group and a young lady in our program was crying because she told us her powerful story of her dad being killed and then his body being shown in the newspaper the next day.
He then turned towards Razan, who was screaming for her life, and, execution-style, with a single bullet to the back of the head, killed her.
The man who murdered my brother turned himself in to the police shortly after the murders, saying he killed three kids, execution-style, over a parking dispute.
Some of the rage I felt at the time was that if roles were reversed, and an Arab, Muslim or Muslim-appearing person had killed three white American college students execution-style, in their home, what would we have called it?
Every seven minutes, an adolescent boy or girl somewhere in the world is killed by an act of violence.
So those of you who recognized the first group of names know that these were African-Americans who have been killed by the police over the last two and a half years.
What you may not know is that the other list is also African-Americans who have been killed within the last two years.
Black girls as young as seven, great grandmothers as old as 95 have been killed by the police.
They've been killed in their living rooms, in their bedrooms.
They've been killed in their cars.
They've been killed on the street.
They've been killed in front of their parents and they've been killed in front of their children.
They've been killed when they've called for help.
They've been killed when they were alone, and they've been killed when they were with others.
They've been killed shopping while black, driving while black, having a mental disability while black, having a domestic disturbance while black.
They've even been killed being homeless while black.
They've been killed talking on the cell phone, laughing with friends, sitting in a car reported as stolen and making a U-turn in front of the White House with an infant strapped in the backseat of the car.
And if that salmon's from Chile, and it's killed down there and then flown 5,000 miles, whatever, dumping how much carbon into the atmosphere?
When we started out, I thought I was going to find so much corruption, I was literally going to either die or get killed in the process.
They developed through time as both solitary predators that hunted and killed to eat, and stealthy prey that hid and escaped to survive.
We see this in the school that sends home a 10-year-old girl because her clothes were a distraction to boys trying to learn, or the government that refuses to punish men for raping women over and over, or the woman who is killed because she asked a man to stop grinding on her on the dance floor.
I remember a message sent to me saying that I was going to be killed and that rivers of blood were going to flow and that I was going to be raped many times before I died.
The added tragedy of Banaz's story is that she had gone to the police in England five times asking for help, telling them that she was going to be killed by her family.
"And anyway, if they killed you, you would become a martyr."
I realize that even the most traumatic event of my life is still a testament to my privilege, because I can talk about it without getting ostracized, or even killed.
Later that morning, at Columbine High School, my son Dylan and his friend Eric killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded more than 20 others before taking their own lives.
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