Comments on: Picture This …

By: reluctantmemsahib

reluctantmemsahib — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:48:56 +0000

thank you maggie may; I wish I hadn’t felt compelled to write this one though. I wish the violence would end: instead it just seems to be intensifying. The children are victims of both horrifying treatment and terrifying images.

By: maggie may

maggie may — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:59:36 +0000

Your post made me cry. So beautifully written, I agree that this should be made into a book. Have just stumbled on your blog & you have just gained a reader. What more can I say?

By: reluctantmemsahib

reluctantmemsahib — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:56:55 +0000

Thank you all. Hope is all there is I think: though the media doens’t seem to think so: today’s headlines include … Could Kenya Become Another Rwanda (BBC) and Ethnic Unrest creeps from the Rift to the Capital (Reuters). I hope not. God I hope not. On both counts.

By: Kelli

Kelli — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:34:45 +0000

I just wish I knew what to do! And I wish we’d stop talking about the candidate from Kenya and instead focus ON Kenya! We need to help. We must. Democracies and peace in Africa are too precious a commodity to let another set fall away.

By: lifeonaboat

lifeonaboat — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:18:23 +0000

Mem, so beautifully written.
Hope, hope and more hope.

By: jen

jen — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:56:11 +0000

i am so grateful you and so many others are writing about this. we need to shake the world awake. we need to do more.

By: Expatmum

Expatmum — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:16:22 +0000

It’s maddening that this is happening and none of the so-called super powers are lifting a finger. We have to SHOUT about it to as many people as possible to get the message out. Well done RM.

By: Roberta

Roberta — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:50:17 +0000

P.S. If you don’t get this published in some major market, you are missing the boat!

By: K

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:39:34 +0000

What a breathtaking description of a peaceful African day turning into chilling horror. Your writing made me weep at the end. Thank you for giving us this - somehow your village seems more real than those scenes I saw on TV in UK last night. Why are we shown bloodied dying people being beaten to death? They don’t give this sort of coverage of “unrest” in other countries, so why do so for Kenya? It is absolutely horrible.

By: Roberta

Roberta — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:14:15 +0000

For the first time in years, I have read something that has reduced me to tears. I am praying and hoping. Hard.