P.S. Another side note to Matskramer:
If you look at the tribal conflicts and govt corruption in Africa,
you will see a whole system that is "not fair" to the populations there.
So this sign of unfairness and sickness with this one child, is like the tip of an iceberg,
pointing attention to a whole hotbed of corruption, of people in power
usurping resources to fight wars while the masses starve and suffer.
It isn't without cause.
There is a reason people like this child are left to suffer and starve
in one of the world continents most known for its richness in resources,
both mineral and biological, in culture and in the people.
If we don't solve the problems with corruption in Africa, but continue to let them
fight off their own wars, kill of their own people, in mass genocides and rapes.
The problems escalate and escalate, and lead to this picture seen by the world.
So eventually the call for justice is heard by enough people who will step in
and do more to end the genocide and corruption that has devastated not
only African villages and nations but has also been exposed in the Haiti crisis.
Secondary Note: If you want to hear another unjust story coming out of Africa,
as an example of how injustice and division escalates until more is done to
resolve the root conflict, look up the story on the volunteer who was about
to leave Africa after finishing her work observing a voting process. Because
she was white, she was mistaken as a member of the European oppressive
class, and lynched to death by an angry mob. And this was a volunteer trying
to help the local people to overcome oppression through fair elections and voting.
The case ended up going through a truth commission set up by Mandela, where
the men responsible for the killing confessed and cooperated with authorities,
even apologized publicly and to the family for their mistake, in exchange for
amnesty as a political crime. So it was an extremely tragic, humbling and
expensive mistake and lesson to learn, that cost a young woman her life.
And the only reward or justice that may come from this is greater awareness
and sensitivity against political violence, that indirectly will improve the community
and people she was trying to help.
It makes no sense on the surface, why a socially conscious volunteer, who was
doing things to help other people, ended up as an unjust victim of the racial and political
strife she was working to resolve. Totally unjust.
But again, BECAUSE it was so unjust, this motivated the people to take action
toward change. Had the men killed a criminal abuser, people would say the
political violence was DESERVED, and would continue taking laws into their
own hands (without due process) and trusting this is justice at work!
But because this was NOT justice, but ended up killing an innocent person
who was basically "executed without any trial or due process"
her death ended up emphasizing why you don't resort to vigilante justice
and political violence,
but why civilized systems are needed for peace and democracy
in order to seek justice the right way, not this way.
That was not fair at all.
Tragically unfair, especially since this was a volunteer working for social justice!
But again, if nobody did enough to stop political violence, but kept using
it as a means to an end, then it took losing someone like her before
people wake up and realize that way of violence is just as wrong.
After it cost an innocent volunteer her life.