As a follow-up to my previous post, the type of hate described in this article:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113966999
outweighs the kind of hate we have just been discussing. I think the most poignant statement is from a witness to it all "I have never seen such violence in my life. I swear that this is the first time in Guinea that we have witnessed women's bodies being treated as if they were battlefields." I can hardly breathe when I acknowledge that human beings are doing this to one another - and women are often the most injured, the most violated and the most destroyed.
A discussion of the dangers of mob violence must be examined as the woman in the article who escaped her kidnap and subsequent horror explained that she escaped because a member of the "mob" was forced to step out and realize that she was an INDIVIDUAL. He knew her. She was human to him...not just chattle.
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