The Unrest is Relentless

It seems like redundancy, to continue hearing about Sudanese rebels, or Somailia's capital, Mogadishu racked with yet another slaughter attack.
Looking at the little ticker at the bottom of CNN, we begin to tune out reports on the ongoing situation in Iraq, Anna Nicole's autopsy, and Somalia's peacekeeping issues. Minus the nation's facination with the absurd pop star's death, these issues press on as our minds stay numbed.

After seeing films like Hotel Rwanda or Blood Diamonds- we imagine that such horrific issues are a thing of the (recent) past. We must be thankful for up-to-the-minute broadcasts, web tickers, elevator TVs, news in every venue- even the family scoping an HDTV at Best Buy can easily see the recent stories of the day. Just because these issues seem to repeat day after day, the response should never be to simply gloss over the global issues with a dismissal wave of the hand and say "That's life.." and walk away with a tsking head nod.

Sadly as it is, news stories like the one below, involving children usually halts us dead in our tracks- regardless of how war-torn their nation is currently.

BBC Report:
Sixty-six children were killed in eastern Uganda during an army operation against suspected cattle rustlers, UK charity Save the Children says.

They were shot by soldiers, run over by armoured vehicles or crushed by stampeding animals last month.
The aid group said it had not found physical evidence of the alleged deaths in Karamoja, but had consistent reports after interviewing some 200 people.
The army denied the allegations, saying only adults were killed in the raids.
Save the Children has called for an independent investigation into the events at Kaputh.
"Reports of children being killed in indiscriminate, illegal and inhumane ways is absolutely devastating. Such allegations must be fully investigated and those involved brought to account," Save the Children's Valter Tinderholt said, Reuters news agency reports.