Thursday, May 31, 2007

"I'm just a single voice, what can I do to erase?"

I really wonder sometimes....

1) During The Holocaust in World War II, approximately six million European Jews were systemically murdered as part of a program planned and executed led by Adolf Hitler in Germany. Of those who were killed, approximately 1.5 million were children, and at least 200,000 were mentally or physically disabled.

2) In 1994, rivalry between 2 ethnic groups in Rwanda led to the mass extermination of at least 500,000 Tutsis and thousands of moderate Hutus. It was the largest atrocity during the Rwandan Civil War.

In the wake of the Rwandan Genocide, the United Nations and the international community drew severe criticism for its inaction. Despite international news media coverage of the violence as it unfolded, most countries, including France, Belgium and the United States declined to intervene or speak out against the massacres

3) Current statistics show that 2/3 of the world lives in poverty.

4) Up to 20, 0000 children appear in pornographic images, and there are 100, 000 child pornography websites on the internet.

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)


"It's still the same old story

This great divide
Between the want and waste
And all the hunger inside
I heard the news today
Now I'm trying to find my place
I'm just a single voice
What can I do to erase

All this misunderstanding
All this anarchy
Six degrees of separation
Sometimes it's so hard to see
That we are not alone in this
I need to believe" - 'Free' by Corrinne May

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