Thus let's die long, red and dry.
Rest in peace, green fly.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has demanded an end to widespread sexual abuse in war-ravaged eastern DR Congo, during a visit to the country.Back?
Continued here.
The BBC's Will Ross, in Nairobi, says perpetrators go unpunished and that sexual attacks have increased since January, when a government offensive [emphasis mine] was launched against rebels linked to Rwanda's genocide.
Who will be the next? I asked about three weeks ago.
Well, one week after the murder of Natalya Estemirova, the body of Andrei Kulagin was found in Karelia.
Another week later on Spiegel international online one could read (more) about The Triumph of Fear in Russia;
And there might have been some more 'the next', of which we will probably not come to know.
Today, in Dagestan's capital,
Zarema Sadulayeva headed Save the Generation, a group that for several years worked with Unicef and Western [and Russian*] aid organisations to provide prosthetic limbs, surgical operations and counseling for victims of the terror in Chechnya.
Rights groups such as Memorial blame the forces of the Chechen president, Ramzan Kadyrov, for abductions, killings and torture.
So do I, adding but two names: Medvedev and Putin.
And I am tired to ask Who will be the next? ...
The peace of the night.
* somehow, to mention this in most Western media would simply be forgotten ...
The poetry of earth is never dead:This does not lack of correctness, Mr Keats.