"This country has a double standard, has no justice and will never be peaceful," read a comment on pantip.com, an Internet chat site that has a popular political section.
Our childhoods may have been peaceful (read: peaceful, not spoiled), but we arrived on the shores of adulthood disillusioned, and in the midst of both national and global crises.
Classical music provides for peaceful thought, reading and enjoyment.
Individuals have bean arrested for making peaceful protests – reading out the names of the dead – for heckling, for handing out leaflets containing Bible verses.
Aside from weekend indie film screenings among the trees, nighttime entertainment is DIY: a chat and a drink around a fire with other guests, or a peaceful evening reading - not a mobile phone or iPad in sight.
Yes, pajamas and books provide warmth, comfort, safety, security, peaceful dreams, reading practice and story time, but we know there's more to it than that.
These are serious crimes from a security apparatus already saturated in the blood of (mostly) peaceful protesters (read some testimonies here).
Representatives of the peaceful protesters read a statement of their demands before turning to Gezi Park, the center of a campaign to save the only green patch in Istanbul's center.
"The use of these lethal weapons within the borders of other sovereign nations, at times without their permission, shrouded in secrecy and without clear legal authority, raises serious moral and ethical questions about the principles and the implications of this practice for U.S. foreign relations and the prospects for a more peaceful world," reads the letter.
Despite its clunky acronym and relative obscurity, the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials (CPPNM) is the only legally binding international agreement focusing on the physical protection of peaceful-use (read: non-military) nuclear materials.
