A crowd of Somalis beat the body of an Ethiopian soldier as it is dragged in the streets of Somalia�s capital on November 8, 2007.
The picture that you see above moves me to my core every time i see it. So it wasn’t a surprise when i decided to write about it on this blog.
That picture to me is the perfect example for the reality of war and a war that i believe to be unjustified and unnecessary. I can only imagine how much the parents and siblings of the dead soldier in the picture miss him.
And i also wonder, if he had any off-springs, what would you tell to a child of this dead soldier??? Your Dad was killed defending Ethiopia? LIE. Your Dad was killed for you to have a safe and better future? LIE.
The truth is that picture should have never happened. I love my country Ethiopia dearly to tell the people who run it that “they screwed up BIG time.”
The western world is one that gives human life an enormous value. And the special treatment their armed services get here in the United States is one that is exemplary and commendable.
The Ethiopian government ought to treat its soldiers with the same respect that ‘developed countries’ do. We should never have a president in power that could sit at ease while our brave Ethiopian soldiers are being dragged all over Somalia.
We should never fight someone else’s war. No reason given by the Ethiopian government regarding the Somalia invasion had made sense to me.
The biggest mistake a government can make is ‘never learning from its mistake’.
It makes me wonder, “what’s next?” Darfur? Kenya?
We got enough problems in our country to be worried about what an ‘Islamist Group’ might do in Ethiopia.
I hope we learned our lesson.
I’d love to hear your perspectives on this- leave a comment if you have anything to say…
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You all don’t understand, look at their faces, they are enjoying themselves. Nobody look horrified. this is just part of their culture, it is ok.
That is Tragic and Sad.
I am definitely against any kind of mob “justice” whether it is Fallujah, Mogadishu, etc. but then I am not in any of those places.
I am not sure what happened to trigger the people’s anger…
But news outlet are saying atrocities are been committed by all sides.
I know when people feel wronged and there is no court or police, it just becomes the law of the jungle.. I don’t know how culture fits in the mix.
Doc, in terms what to tell kids of soldier?
Once can say he was a brave soldier whose government sent him the WRONG MISSION.