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[aid] => mick
[title] => Please Dont Turn Your Back On This
[time] => 2005-03-12 19:37:15
[hometext] => Hello, i'd like to ask the people on this site to do me a favour and read this poem. Something terrible is happening and the media seems to be doing its best to pretend it isnt. Id really appreciate it if you had a look. Thank you.
[bodytext] => Congo: The sun sets a giant ball of flame Another night in this land of utter shame The sky may be red but the land makes it pale Blood stains the land There is blood on all our hands. Four million people butchered in five years Four million Imagine that number I read those words found it hard to comprehend How far they had let themselves descend. Four million people in just five years I felt their anger and pain I felt my shame for not knowing In that dry dusty land there is an ocean of tears. I read of women so terribly abused Tens of thousands of them And nothing is done. Terror rules supreme there With the harsh law of the gun. Something has to be done. Elsewhere..... We run around in our own little worlds Focus on all our own little problems that cause us grief We watch tv news and see what they want us to see But what really goes on defies belief. Our leaders blow up people on our behalf This so called "War On Terror" is a joke Perhaps if the Congo was more oil-rich It wouldnt be going to hell in a cloud of blood filled smoke. Thats all, i know its not a great poem but if it is even enough for 1 person to read 1 of the links below then its served its purpose. Whats happening over there is truly horrific and more people should know about it. It should not be swept under the international carpet and forgotten about. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/3201770.stm http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3426273.stm http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=535&ncid=535&e=10&u=/ap/20050307/ap_on_re_af/congo_rape_3 [comments] => 7 [counter] => 672 [topic] => 4 [informant] => outsider [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 10 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => news )
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