Sunday, June 10, 2007

Journal 13 - Socialist Bernard Kouchner - a member Sarkozy's Cabinet

Bernard Kouchner, 67, is a gastroenterologist from Paris. He has written six books and revolutionized humanitarism throughout the world. In 1968, he assisted Biafra in famine. The Republic of Biafra was a short-lived secessionist state in southern Nigeria. It existed from May 1967 to January 1970. In 1970, he co-founded the Doctors without Borders, which was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 1999 and Medicines of the World in the next decade. Kouchner, during the remaining 1980s, organized several operations: “A boat for Vietnam”, boat for Lebanon and a plane for the refugees from El Salvardor. The most famous of the operations, he led in this time, was Operation Restore Hope in Somalia. In this case, he even assisted in carrying bags of rice to the people.
Bernard Kouchner ran on the political arena as a member of the Socialist Party. I will write about his political activity in the next journal.

1 comment:

Anita Bonita said...

Bernard Kouchner sounds like my kind of guy. In France, is he considered conservative or liberal?