A new Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu biography released Monday to mark his 80th birthday tomorrow celebrates the South African icon as a tireless activist and playful inspiration in tributes from world leaders to rock stars.
The book Tutu: The Authorised Portrait contains intimate accounts from the diverse collection of friends won over in his globe-trotting campaigns to end apartheid rule and then for peace.
“I believe that God is waiting for the archbishop. He is waiting to welcome Desmond Tutu with open arms,” said South Africa’s first democratic president and fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nelson Mandela.
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“If Desmond gets to heaven and is denied entry, then none of the rest of us will get in!”
The insights offer a glimpse behind the activist whose transformation from a clergyman to a global icon is traced alongside family snapshots and pictures of apartheid brutality.
“Emotionally and mentally, Bishop Tutu and I are very close. I call him my spiritual older brother,” said Tibet’s spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
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Copies of letters to apartheid rulers and handwritten extracts of his notes reveal his relentless fight for democracy and his instinctive humanity. (AFP)
為歡慶南非榮譽退休聖公會總主教戴斯蒙‧屠圖明天的八十大壽，關於他的新自傳已於週一發行，有來自世界各國領袖以至搖滾巨星對他的稱頌，讚美這位奮鬥不懈的社會運動參與者，以及常保赤子之心的南非偶像。
新書《屠圖：公認的寫照》（暫譯）內容，是屠圖從結束種族隔離乃至推動和平的日子裡，在世界行腳中所結識的八方諸友，對他生活大小事詳實的描述。
南非首任民選總統及與屠圖同為諾貝爾和平獎得主的尼爾森‧曼德拉表示：「我相信上帝等著這位總主教。祂正展開雙臂歡迎戴斯蒙‧屠圖。」
他說：「若戴斯蒙到了天堂卻吃閉門羹，那麼我們其他人也甭想進去了！」
該書字句洞見，讓讀者一窺這位社運人士，是如何從一位神職人員一路成為全球偶像的心路歷程。同時也隨著不同時期，附上其家庭生活快照，以及種族隔離的殘酷照片。
西藏精神領袖達賴喇嘛表示：「在情感與精神上，屠圖主教和我非常要好。我稱他為我精神上的老大哥。」
屠圖與實行種族隔離政策的統治者往來的書信與他親筆寫下的紙條，在在都顯現他對民主堅韌不懈的鬥志，以及他出於本能對人道的關懷。（法新社／翻譯：林亞蒂）
Historians are rethinking the way the Holocaust is being presented in museums as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the last Nazi concentration camps this month. Shocking images of the mass killings of Jews were “used massively at the end of World War II to show the violence of the Nazis,” historian Tal Bruttmann, a specialist on the Holocaust, told AFP. But in doing so “we kind of lost sight of the fact that is not normal to show” such graphic scenes of mass murder, of people being humiliated and dehumanized, he said. Up to this
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