War and Wondering
Two women sick with grief pull at the sheet covering a women, maybe their sister, their aunt, maybe somebody they never knew, who was murdered by government troops in Goma, Congo last week. A circle of U.N. Security Council members sitting in upholstered blue chairs in front of desks, hovering over pieces of paper. These are the contrasting back-to-back pictures in a photo slide show titled, “Crisis in Congo” on msnbc.com.
The pictures document the unbelievable human plight of thousands of Africans fleeing Goma for refugee camps this week. It also documents the convening of the U.N. to discuss a solution when their biggest peacekeeping force in the entire world, 17,000 strong, isn’t enough in this central african nation.
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What can I do? I can’t make anyone put down their grenade launcher, I can’t hash out a ceasefire and I definitely can’t talk to the leader of the Congolese army or rebel general Laurent Nkunda. My emotions seem to have no answer because guns will fire still fire, and bellies will still ache for food, and there will still be death, regardless of the depths of my feelings.
Do you ever find yourself feeling completely helpless about world conflict? What do you do with what you read, the pictures you see and the emotions you feel?
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