Dateline: April through July, 1994
One Hundred days of bloody hell
Literally bloody bloody bloody hell
800,000
Men, women and most of all children
Killed
Dead
Decapitated
Decimated
Demoralized
An eradication campaign
Location – Rwanda, not Iraq
Dateline: January 1999
6,000 dead
Bodies draped in red
Blood everywhere
2,000 children missing
Places unknown
Location: Sierra Leone
Dateline: 1975-1979
No intervention of any kind
1,700,000 gone
21% of the population
Dead
No more
Location: Cambodia
Dateline: As of 2002
600,000 missing
Presumed dead
Picture this
Organized mass murder
Bodies piled up
Set on fire
Tortured
Raped
Or maybe they were
Abducted by aliens
Location: East Timor
The world waits
Seems to me it hesitates
Death everywhere
Starving children stare
Tattered clothes
No place for abodes
Argument erupts
Diplomatic constructs
Close your eyes
Sorry – no where to hide
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Reviews of "Genocide"
Reviewed by C. Gourlay (Reader)
Reviewed on February 26, 2003
this is harsh reality captured at its lateral best... in the words of eminem 'lose yourself in the music'
Reviewed by Adam Walsvik (Reader)
Reviewed on February 21, 2003
I'm glad I read this. A dose of reality for me is pretty much always welcome these days.
Adam
Super write Super Girl..wow I did not know about all these statisics.of horror....thank you for sharing this with us...Dear Lord its heartbreaking
Love Tinka
allow the pain--if no gain--has ever been--the worlds refrain.
Go girl!
Reviewed by Morchuis
Reviewed on February 19, 2003
Hi Super,
I was there seen it, was right in the middle of it, horrors of undescribable magnitude,
Genocide the blood lust of Man, the most horrible sight on earth.---Morchuis
Reviewed by Alexander Shaumyan (Reader)
Reviewed on February 19, 2003
Excellent, Sara. This pretty much sums it up. While the United States was busy demonizing Saddam Hussein, it quietly supported the brutal dictatorship of Suharto in Indonesia and his occupation of East Timor.
This is a super write by a true super girl...Bravo! as I have said one day we shall answer for what we have FAILED to do! Until then we just go on...sad to say...
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The heroic story of how a small group of people, few of them TB experts, found the cure for the greatest killer in human history. But the battle needed to be extended to all sufferers. Why have we failed to take the miracle to the developing world?
Adam
~E
Love Tinka
Chrissie
Excellent!
Go girl!
I was there seen it, was right in the middle of it, horrors of undescribable magnitude,
Genocide the blood lust of Man, the most horrible sight on earth.---Morchuis
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