Kathy Kelly

Kathy Kelly is the co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence and the author of Other Lands Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison (2005). She was part of a recent delegation to cities and villages in Pakistan.

Visitors and Hosts in Pakistan

In Jayne Anne Phillips’ Lark and Termite, the skies over Korea in 1950 are described in this way:

“The planes always come … like planets on rotation. A timed bloodletting, with different excuses.”

The most recent plane to attack the Pakistani village of Khaisor (according to a Waziristan resident who asked me to withhold his name) came on May 20. A U.S. drone airplane fired a missile at the village at 4:30 a.m., killing 14 women and children and two elders, wounding 11.