In Africa the trend of wars have changed dramatically over the recent past. Instead of border conflicts, ethnic fightings occured with the country and had led to total disintegration of the nation. Somalia is one good example of that. Military has been replaced by marauding gunmen in their teens or much younger than that. They are child soldiers. They are mostly high with liquor or narcotic drugs and they think that everything belongs to them.A picture of Somalia is partially presented here. there are more uglier scenes taking place in the country. we are conducting a day of International Prayers next week for Somalia. please join us in the prayers and wish better future for the children of Somalia who mostly have never seen inside a classroom over the past fifteen years of clan anarchy in the country.
I am a child soldier
I gain at gunpoint
Everything is mine
the road is mine
The air is mine
The sea is mine
The fish is mine
The sand is mine
The soil is mine
The garbage is mine
The building is mine
The little beauty is mine
Everything I touch
turns out to be mine
Mine itself is mine
My gun is my life
Unsafe I am if i lose it.
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Reviewed by Simon Thurlow (Reader)
Reviewed on February 3, 2004
Sadly, we see this all too often on our TV screens
An awful mantra to live by Abdi! I hope the prayers continue and a solution will be found in the near future! God bless you for caring enough about your countrymen, to share this!I keep both you and your country in prayer...
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Love Tinka
our children do not need to be fighting an adult's war...painful, gutwrenching, hard hitting write--well done *tears*
are our children expendable? should our children be used as pawns in a political ploy? i think not
to put this under the catagory "crime" was a brilliant, wise move, because it is a crime
(((HUGS))) and love,
karla. :(
i'm praying for your people and your nation :(
(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in America, Karen Lynn in Texas. :( >tears <
God Bless
~Michelle~