Human Rights Week is not much of an occasion in the US, with some notable qualifications. But it doesreceive considerable attention elsewhere. For me personally, Human Rights Week 2002 was memorable andpoignant. The week opened on the eve of Human Rights Day, Dec. 10, at St. Paul's Cathedral in London, wherethousands of people gathered to celebrate -- though that may not be quite the right word -- the tenthanniversary of the Kurdish Human Rights Project KHRP, which has done outstanding work on some of the mostserious human rights issues of the decade: particularly, but not only, the US-backed terrorist campaigns ofthe Turkish state that rank among the most terrible crimes of the grisly 1990s, leaving tens of thousands deadand millions driven from the devastated countryside, with every imaginable form of barbaric torture. The weekended for me in Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey, the semi-official capital of the Kurdish region, teemingwith refugees living in squalor, barred from returning to what is left of their villages, even though newlegislation theoretically allows that choice.