Yelena Bonner passes away
Yelena Bonner, the widow of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, passed away on Sunday morning. She was 88.NGO Monitor issued the following statement on Bonner's death:
NGO Monitor today released the following statement on the death of Russian human rights activist Yelena Bonner, widow of Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov:May her memory be blessed.Yelena Bonner was a tireless leader of the international human rights movement and played a pivotal role in ending the oppressive policies of the Soviet Union. Along with her late husband, Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, Ms. Bonner demonstrated that personal sacrifice and relentless courage can spur monumental change in closed societies.
Quoting Sakharov, Ms. Bonner reminded the 2009 Oslo Forum audience, “All wars that Israel has waged have been just, forced upon it by the irresponsibility of Arab leaders.” She expressed her “alarm because of the anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli sentiment growing throughout Europe.” Ms. Bonner also pleaded for the human rights movement to remember the plight of Gilad Shalit, asking her human rights colleagues why his fate doesn’t “trouble you in the same way as does the fate of the Guantanamo prisoners?...”
NGO Monitor today pays tribute to Ms. Bonner’s commitment to universal morality and her defense of human rights.
Labels: Andrei Sakharov, NGO Monitor, Yelena Bonner
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:15 PM
3 Comments:
Russia today is a free country, thanks in no small part to the efforts played by Soviet dissidents like Andrei Sakharov and Yelena Bonner. The universal principles of justice, freedom, the rule of law and true peace is why the Cold War finally ended - people who were brave and courageous enough to fight for them. Bonner's work isn't over and others will carry it on, in Russia and abroad.
May her memory be blessed.
She was a great Jewish soul
May she rest in peace !
This lady was a Great Jewish Hero of our time
Alongside her husband,she fought for freedom within former USSR
May she rest in Peace !
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