"As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home."
-Jack Kornfield

07 November 2008

An Absolute Waste

"Many people have died for nothing. Why?"
-a caller to BBC News, concerning the renewed fighting in Eastern Congo


There is not even the cloak of revolution, the veil of idealism, covering the violence in the East of The Democratic Republic of Congo.
There is nothing but deeply ingrained ethnic hatred, brewed from the storm of the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, combined with the omnipresent greed that drives violence and agression worldwide. A brutal combination, a deadly cocktail, for the innocent victims of Congo, who have already endured so much suffering and destruction.