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The poet Wilfred Owen used some poignant descriptions of gas warfare in the First World War. The soldier in Owen's poem didn't simply succumb to gas: he had a “hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin.” He didn't simply collapse into the narrator's arms: Owen writes “he plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.” The damage to the body was not in medical terms: “the blood / Come gargling forth from the froth-corrupted lungs / Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud / Of vile, incurable sores from innocent tongues.”

Gas warfare is banned today if not for a few belligerents and terrorists using them, but tear gas is no different. In the case of the kuliglig drivers of Manila, who were violently dispersed by the Manila SWAT team last Wednesday, it involved tear gas, water cannons, and trucks.

[DatePublished] => 2010-12-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1315291 [AuthorName] => Featured Blogger Marck Ronald Rimorin [SectionName] => Unblogged [SectionUrl] => unblogged [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [ArticleID] => 636395
                    [Title] => Violent dispersal
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The poet Wilfred Owen used some poignant descriptions of gas warfare in the First World War. The soldier in Owen's poem didn't simply succumb to gas: he had a “hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin.” He didn't simply collapse into the narrator's arms: Owen writes “he plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.” The damage to the body was not in medical terms: “the blood / Come gargling forth from the froth-corrupted lungs / Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud / Of vile, incurable sores from innocent tongues.”

Gas warfare is banned today if not for a few belligerents and terrorists using them, but tear gas is no different. In the case of the kuliglig drivers of Manila, who were violently dispersed by the Manila SWAT team last Wednesday, it involved tear gas, water cannons, and trucks.

[DatePublished] => 2010-12-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1315291 [AuthorName] => Featured Blogger Marck Ronald Rimorin [SectionName] => Unblogged [SectionUrl] => unblogged [URL] => ) ) )
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