Recently, [UN peacekeepers] initiated what they call “night flashes,†in which three truckloads of peacekeepers drive into the bush and keep their headlights on all night as a signal to both civilians and armed groups that the peacekeepers are there. Sometimes, when morning comes, 3,000 villagers are curled up on the ground around them.
I just don’t know how to make sense of such attrocites, I don’t know what to say, I don’t know what to think. I just have to hope in a place that transcends such nastiness.
gem / 5:36pm / 17 October 2007