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Baroness Cox: A Voice for the Voiceless
by Andrew Boyd
Caroline Cox is barely known is the U.S.,
yet she has lived a rather remarkable life
bringing aid to persecuted people around
the world for over two decades. Trained as
a nurse and politically a left-of-center
Laborite, she nonetheless was elevated to
the peerage in 1982 on the recommendation
of Margaret Thatcher. As a college lecturer,
Cox had taken great personal risks in opposing
violent Marxists who were attempting to trample
academic freedom in various British universities.
The main narrative covers her often-dangerous
personal missions on behalf of Solidarity
in Poland, orphans in Russia, ethnic Armenians
in Nagorno-Karabakh (part of Azerbaijan),
the Karen people of Burma, and the Christians
of Sudan. This reviewer met the Baroness
in October 2001, while she was visiting New
York, and was highly impressed. A friend
subsequently accompanied her on travels to
the beleaguered Karens of Burma, an experience
that changed that person’s life. |
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