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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWatching innocent people getting butchered, displaced, separated from loved ones
while all of the political tip toeing has (something we have to accept, I guess) to happen is utterly brutal. No one paying attention to this can come out of this unchanged. Dealing with the sadness and horror - and then dealing with the hatred for those who are doing this - and dealing with the hatred for those in our own country for blatantly trumpeting their support for those who are doing this -
nightmares, depression, sleep issues, sadness - inescapable. And it shouldn't be - all we need to do is think about what it would be like if it was us on the TV being shown in the middle of that horror.
Knowing that this is a complex world wide political dance, with innocent victims as the pawns, is...brutal. just brutal.
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(32,489 posts)Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)I was constantly watching the news during the genocide in Rwanda. Non-stop. Read everything I could. Room to room, all televisions were tuned into the news. Left the house for work only.
I suffered what was politely termed a "nervous collapse".
I learned about the Holocaust at an early age (5). That was a life-changing and still ongoing conversation.
Too see all that dying and feeling so completely helpless, I was crushed by what was happening in Rwanda.
Never again? Yet - again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again until there is no longer any belief in people. Individuals, yes. The collective? None.
I don't have anything profound to say that will help anyone with what they are feeling during this current horror.
Honestly, the American war criminals being allowed to get away with their crimes against humanity was pretty much the last straw for me.
I'm not numb or anything along those lines - I'm just that much more scathing about a lot of things.