Sunday, May 3, 2009

New Word Sudoku (Qudoku!) Puzzles for Sunday, 5/3/2009

New Word Sudoku (Qudoku!) Puzzles for Sunday, 5/3/2009

I’m replacing the usual Sunday Challenge 12x12 Hidden Word puzzle today with two Qudoku puzzle sets. Today is World Press Freedom Day, recognizing the value of freedom of expression and the sacrifices journalists all around the world have made and continue to make to attain—and retain—this freedom.

Each year, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization awards the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize to someone who has made a major contribution to journalistic freedom.

Guillermo Cano Isaza was the editor of Colombia’s oldest newspaper, El Espectador, for more than 33 years when he was murdered in late 1986. I remember reading it on the wire when I was a journalist in Salt Lake City at the time. El Espectador had recently published a number of articles critical of Colombia's drug lords.

The two most recent winners of this distinguished prize have certainly demonstrated their commitment to freedom of expression. This year’s winner (officially announced today), Sri Lankan reporter/editor Lasantha Wickrematunge, first trained as a lawyer and was a member of the Sri Lankan Bar Association. While working as an attorney, he began working as an investigative reporter for the Sun/Davasa newspaper. About 15 years ago, Wickrematunge started the Sri Lankan Sunday Leader with his brother and used his publication to campaign vigorously against the war between Sri Lanka’s army and Tamil rebels.

This was a man who broke scandal after scandal. And he knew he was targeted. He had warned his brother that he believed the government would try to kill him; he told his brother that, in the event of Wickrematunge’s death, his brother should immediately collect certain sensitive documents placed in his home.

His brother had to find those documents in January of this year. Only later, as he scanned through them, did the brother realize that one of those documents was a handwritten editorial Wickrematunge had prepared for publication if he were murdered—an editorial explicitly accusing the Sri Lankan government of killing him.

The entire text of this extraordinary editorial is at http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=45057&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html. The words he delivered ‘from beyond the grave’ will always ring true.

BEHALF
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle

CURTSY
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle

MOVING
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle
In each puzzle, each row, column, 2x3 rectangle and set of circled cells contains the letters in the respective words exactly once
Copy circled letters to their corresponding numbered cells in the quote grid to spell out the quote

Last year’s winner is equally impressive, in an equally dangerous part of the world; her exposés also keep her in extreme peril.

A correspondent for CIMAC news agency and a feature writer for Dia Siete magazine, Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro has endured numerous death threats because of her work reporting on domestic violence, organized crime and pedophilia. Cacho Ribeiro, now in her mid 40s, is also the founder and director of the Centro Integral de Atención a las Mujeres in Cancún, a crisis center and shelter for victims of sex crimes, gender-based violence and trafficking.

A few years ago, she exposed a pedophile ring in Cancún, naming names of the rich and powerful she says were involved; she became a journalism sensation after she was abducted by police, allegedly at the behest of a state governor.

In 2007, The International Women's Media Foundation awarded Lydia Cacho Ribeiro its Courage Award for demonstrating exceptional bravery in reporting. And in 2008, she won the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.

She, too, has something to say about standing up and being counted.

LIGHTS
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle

BARYON
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle

JUMPED
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle
In each puzzle, each row, column, 2x3 rectangle and set of circled cells contains the letters in the respective words exactly once
Copy circled letters to their corresponding numbered cells in the quote grid to spell out the quote

Solutions in the morning.

Thanks,
--Dave

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