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Why the everloving hell does this have to happen?
From the article:
And the killing isn't simply bullets and grenades. It's the systematic invasion of small villages; the torture and murder of men; the rape and murder of women; the rape, kidnapping, and forced imprisonment or servitude of children as young as 6 years, and perhaps younger. Children too young to walk or whose bodies are too small to provide "sexual pleasure" to the militants are slaughtered. Young boys are given guns and told to fight for the militants, or they too will be killed. Little girls are given to grown soldiers as "wives", made to work as slaves and sex toys; they do not long survive the fighting and harsh life in the jungle.
This is unconscionable. And because we aren't directly effected by it, we ignore it. Just like we ignored Haiti for twenty, thirty years or more...
C'mon, humanity.
From the article:
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| The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake... A peer-reviewed study found that 5.4 million people had already died in this war as of April 2007, and hundreds of thousands more have died as the situation has deteriorated since then. |
And the killing isn't simply bullets and grenades. It's the systematic invasion of small villages; the torture and murder of men; the rape and murder of women; the rape, kidnapping, and forced imprisonment or servitude of children as young as 6 years, and perhaps younger. Children too young to walk or whose bodies are too small to provide "sexual pleasure" to the militants are slaughtered. Young boys are given guns and told to fight for the militants, or they too will be killed. Little girls are given to grown soldiers as "wives", made to work as slaves and sex toys; they do not long survive the fighting and harsh life in the jungle.
This is unconscionable. And because we aren't directly effected by it, we ignore it. Just like we ignored Haiti for twenty, thirty years or more...
C'mon, humanity.
