Because sometimes, you just need a little perspective on your life.
Confessions of a Sudanese deserter
Go read that. Then whatever your troubles are today, I'm betting you'll feel better able to deal with them.
It's a damned good thing for Al-Bashir that his region doesn't have any oil, or the US would have been all up in his craw by now.
Some days, humans just disgust me.
That said, I admire the courage of this man to step forward and give voice to it. To be willing to put his life on the line, and to most likely never be able to go home again, in order to try and make the world see what is actually happening there, and who is behind it. Nothing will be done about it, most likely, but in people like this man, I see some glimmer of hope for the species, at least.
Let's hear it for first world problems!
Go read that. Then whatever your troubles are today, I'm betting you'll feel better able to deal with them.
It's a damned good thing for Al-Bashir that his region doesn't have any oil, or the US would have been all up in his craw by now.
Some days, humans just disgust me.
That said, I admire the courage of this man to step forward and give voice to it. To be willing to put his life on the line, and to most likely never be able to go home again, in order to try and make the world see what is actually happening there, and who is behind it. Nothing will be done about it, most likely, but in people like this man, I see some glimmer of hope for the species, at least.
Let's hear it for first world problems!