The Rape of a Nation
on 12 August 2009
Congo is a continuing human tragedy. It is fourteen hundred
and fifty tragedies every day. It is more than that if you include
the orphaned, the bereaved, the widowed, and all the ripples of
truncated lives that spread from a single death. It is you and me
and our children and our parents, if we had had the bad luck to be
born into the world these photos portray.- John le Carre