Contemplating War and Who Matters by Tamara Banks

Tears spill from the eyes and stream down the cheeks of mothers, wives, and other family members as the men, and many women in their communities pack a small bag and head away from the frontlines of a war. A battle zone right in their own neighborhood. Children whimper with fatigue and hunger as their parents hold their hands and pull them along a muddy sidewalk or road. 

They sidestep bodies wrapped in bloody sheets. Some are neighbors. Others are strangers. Some are even children. Were they on their way to school the day they were killed by enemy gun fire?  The dead are young and old, men and women. Some are slumped over with their hands tied behind their back, a bullet in the back of the head. A cyclist lays in a pool of blood, stopped dead in his tracks by heavy artillery from a tank. Pregnant women hold their abdomens moving as fast as they can to safety as debris and shrapnel whiz past their heads. 

The International Human Rights Commission says civilians are the victims of rapes and executions, while their homes are looted by military soldiers.

These are not the tears of Ukrainian civilians under Russian attack. These atrocities are happening in other places in the world but you probably have not heard of them, at least not through hour-to-hour news coverage every day for weeks…

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