CAUTION!!! RANT AHEAD!!!!!!
I am appalled! I am also very Innocent. I am also very ignorant. I am not however a racist of any type. I Do watch the Oprah show and believe that she can make people hear about atrocities that no one else wants to speak of.
Today was one of those days.
Reporter Lisa Ling was on assignment for the Oprah Show, and was sent to Rwanda and then on the The D.R.C. to cover the story about the 4 MILLION people that were slaughtered there in the past 6 years, and about the 1 MILLION people that were murdered in Rwanda in 1995-6. As Lisa said, these are atrocities that you never heard about. It is not a popular problem, and it is committed by black Africans against Black Africans. It is a holocaust and it is horrible. There are two groups of guerrillas both fighting against each other, and in the way are the people in the villages. These people are slaughtered at night, with no respect for age, sex, religion, color or nationality. Just a live human being one minute, and a dead one the next.
The biggest atrocities however are committed against the women in the villages. They are tortured, and raped in front of their husbands and children, and in some cases, their sons are forced to rape them too. These women may be then taken as sex slaves into the forest and used over and over again until they die or escape.
Once these women come back to their villages, their husbands if they are still alive will shun them, because they are afraid of the diseases they may have. These Women may be pregnant with their captors babies, and in some cases have already given birth to them. These babies can be taken away by the husbands and murdered, or left to die, as they were the off spring of the enemy.
I know that things like this have been going on for as long as there have been human beings on the earth. But GOD! This is the 21st Century. We have just donated Billions of dollars to help out Tsunami victims, and rightly so. We have just spent Trillions of dollars on a war to free a majority of people from a minority of thugs, who are still trying to keep Democracy from gaining a good foothold in their country.
Why have we not heard as much about this atrocity as we have the others? Because the MEDIA does not seem to think it would be as sensational as a Tsunami or a war. This is committed by an unpopular group of people against another unpopular group of people. As Oprah said, " I do not often bring race into my shows, but this is clearly about race." She is right. If it was against American women, or Canadian women or Italian women, someone would do something.
Why does a supposedly caring God allow things like this to happen? Why cant this stop? Why cant we all care enough to do SOMETHING? Why does there have to be pain and suffering because of MAN?
Makes you want to puke!
If I have offended anyone by this rant I am very sorry. I needed to get it off my chest. I also need to find a news source that will report TRUTH and nothing but! Not clouded by politics or nationality. Is there such a thing?
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