Thursday, October 4, 2012

Bloody Diha

           The path of love and peace is one of the most desired goals of humanity, however some religions who predicate about this harmonious path do not actually follow it. That is the case with catholisism whiches in the sixteenth century punished all persons who differed to the religions' beliefs, and islamics who in 1987 tried to impose their religion in the entire Sudan and ended up causing a bloody civil war. Last semester I read "They Poured Fire On Us From The Sky", where it tells the story of 3 kids surviving the horrors of civil war in Sudan, their home country. They had to walk through long forests full of menacing beasts, desserts with no water, bombed towns with deep holes from where the bombs exploded, mined grounds, all of this plus scarcity of water and food, and persecution of civilians by the goverment troops. It all started in the 80s' in an university in Sudan, the higher ups talked to the students that if they desired to continue their education then they should turn into muslims. Students gathered in protests that soon later were shutted down by the army forces executing devilish methods as use of  gun power, body cremation, and throat-cutting. Some students managed to escaped by running into the forest.

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