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Is conflict one way of maintaining the health of the evolutionary gene pool? Anyone stupid enough to fight deserves to be laid down. Like the Burmese monks – we should all be able to attain a high enough understanding to never kill another human being.
These pictures were taken about 5 weeks ago, but their current posting is timely none-the-less. Recent reports have been emanating from the region indicating that as many as 600 people have been killed in tribal clashes and cattle raids around this region in this week just gone by. These pictures are actually from Bor district which lies adjacent and to the West of Jongeli District, the area where recent reports have come from. None-the-less these pictures may build a picture of the lives of the cattle people. The tribe shown here are known as the Bor Dinka:
With the news, before Christmas, that America is going to commit 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, it’s easy to pass over this piece of information without considering much more than politics behind the headline. Since the invasion in 2001, notably now over 8 years ago, the news from ‘on the ground’ in Afghanistan has dwindled to a distant murmour. There are still undoubtedly people out there recording it for us to see, but the story isn’t getting through. It wasn’t until I saw the photo exhibition on this website, that I started to get any kind of idea what it must be like, and even then, watching this at home can’t possibly come anywhere close to what ‘s it’s going to to be like for those 30,000 soldiers, or any of the other people involved with that war.
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