Sunday, March 20, 2005
A thought and a couple observations
I got to thinking and searching Google news for "humanitarian crisis." Among what I found,
- Essential humanitarian aid is not reaching people in Nepal due to the escalating violence between Maoist rebels and the Royal Nepal Army.
- In Swaziland, children orphaned by AIDS make up 10% of the population; the country is in its fourth consecutive year of draught.
- Over six million people in Sudan are homeless due to the conflict, four out of every 1,000 dying each day. That's a 100% yearly death rate.
- In the Congo, there is torture and cannibalism and children combatants as young as 8. One-thousand people a day die in the war and from war-related related preventable diseases.
- Worldwide, 4,000 children die each day due to unsafe water, poor sanitation, and lack of hygiene.
Here is a sick Congolese child and mother. They among those lucky enough to be receiving UN help despite the war,
But what's today's #1 issue for the American "pro-life" posse? Well, it's saving the "life" of this one woman in Florida who has been in a vegetative state for 15 years, of course.
Congress called an emergency session to intervene in that crisis.
The president even had to cut his vacation short to return to Washington to sign the bill.
His political advisors carried his bags.
// posted by Erik @ 3/20/2005 05:10:00 PM
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