BEATING THE DRUMS OF WAR?

Date: 16-07-2012 2:35 pm (12 years ago) | Author: casmas johnheart
- at 16-07-2012 02:35 PM (12 years ago)
(m)

BEATING THE DRUMS OF WAR?

For those beating the drums of war, you may think you are very strong and equipped, but in the end it is our children, sisters, and mothers, grand mothers that will bear the brunt of what you are busy championing.

In this picture, a very weak, probably dead, woman somewhere in South Sudan is been tugged/pulled by her crying baby to wake up. The horn of Africa region (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia) and some West African countries (Liberia and Sierra Leone), and in Central and Southern Africa (Mozambique and Angola) have both experienced a combination of war, drought, famine, torture, rape and deaths in a way that is better imagined. The people in these countries have experience, first hand, what is like to be caught in the middle of a never ending war.

The irony of it all is that, in this age of very, very stupid people armed with smart phones (BBs, iPads) and laptops, just as with most pictures on the internet, about hunger/starvation, war and genocide, some Nigerians will pick up this picture and claim that it was in a remote village in the North where Muslims or Christians were massacred, as they do with some other pictures.

May we NEVER see this in our country or any where in the world again. Please share, before some mischievious people change the nature and context of the picture.

Posted: at 16-07-2012 02:35 PM (12 years ago) | Newbie

Featured Discussions