Unfortunately the Iraq War is overshadowing that elsewhere on this fine planet other people are slaughtering each other to the thousands.

In Eastern Congo, Ugandan occupants are presumably giving machine guns and other weapons to cattle breeders who use them to kill lots and lots of small crop farmers, who belong to a different tribe. The area is rich in natural resources and obviously Ugandans and the cattle breeder tribe want to exploit them all alone.

Now in retribution the other tribe has struck back and killed the inhabitants of an entire village. A British doctor named "Swell" witnessed "heaps of dead bodies everywhere " in the streets and "huge pools of blood".

Shit. Is it good to be able to know all that? Sometimes I'm not sure, if the English saying "Ignorance is bliss" isn't true. But what can I do? Close my eyes, stuff my ears, throw out the TV and sell the computer? One has to learn to cope with the horrors of this world without becoming a hopeless cynic or a religious freak, even if it's tough...