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Hear that?
What a relief!
Gaza isn't on the Top Ten List..
Of misery, mayhem, massacre, slaughter, or grief...
-- Klytus
It's not in the top ten. Sadly much of the suffering in the World gets no attention.
How much press does the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army. Ugandan Rebel group) get?
You'd think that a group that kidnappers hundreds of children less than 10 years of age, the brainwashes them and makes them kill their own parents, might at least get enough press that people have heard of the group.
Yet, I doubt that 1 American in 1000 could tell you who Joseph Kony is, despite his group hacking to death an estimate 485 people around Christmas 2008.
By hacked to death, I mean people rounded up in churches and literally cut to pieces with machetes.
So, 500 civilian in Gaza get killed in 17 days of conflict (where they are not the direct targets) and the story is carried everywhere, but 485 people get hacked to death in a couple of days (and the civilians are the only targets) and the press can hardly be bothered to write a single story.
