See the pictures, read the captions, think about the scale of the horror.
I've been to Dachau. But that camp was first razed and reconstructed so it seems a little sanitized.
On the other hand I have been to the killing fields of Cambodia and S-21
That's even more horrifying because they've not cleaned even many of the blood stains.
I was depressed.
As a teenager I read books about the holocaust obsessively. I had access to very good libraries. I couldn't get over the fact that such a thing could have happened to people who were my grandparents age. Then after my Cambodia visit, I read a lot of books about the Khymer Rouge.
I was born when it happened. In my lifetime. How?
Rawanda. 😢
Even more recent.
Yugoslavia.
Human capacity for cruelty is inhuman.
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My babies were born after a great deal of problems during my pregnancies and a few miscarriages. Our closest friends were Sikhs who kept a piece of Nishaan Sahib under my pillow during my pregnancies and my daughters were wrapped in it when they were born. 🙏🏼
We took my second born home from the hospital after a very stressful couple of weeks of her birth via Gurudwara Bangala Sahib and dipped her in the holy pond for her first bath.
I'm an atheist but I have no objection to my friends who believe and have faith taking these mannats on my behalf and I respectfully bow my head in mandirs, gurudwaras, masjids and churches.
I felt bad to see the police beat the farmers, I felt just as bad to see the farmers forcing the police to fall off the ramparts.
It's been a sad, sad day.
Because neither won.
Those who won are sitting at a safe distance and watching gleefully.