#devastating genocide

[samafricanreporter]

Pastor Alph Lukau called upon all Africans to unite, raise voices, and work towards healing the land and bringing an end to the Genocide in Congo. I appeal all governments and call upon all Africans to unite, raise voices, and work towards healing the land and bringing an end to the Genocide in Congo immediately.” — Pastor Alph Lukau JOHANESSBURG , KELVIN VIEW, SOUTH AFRICA, February 11, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been ravaged by a devastating genocide, resulting in the loss of an estimated 15 million lives. In the face of such immense tragedy, it is imperative that humanity does not remain insensitive to the suffering of the Congolese people. Pastor Alph Lukau has emerged as a beacon of hope, offering prayers for healing and actively working towards putting an end to the genocide. This stand taken by Pastor Alph Lukau delves into the urgent need to heal our land, stop the genocide, and appeals the Governments the importance of addressing this humanitarian crisis with compassion and action. The genocide in the DRC has displace the lives of more than 7 million people, leaving behind a trail of unimaginable suffering. It is our collective responsibility as human beings to respond with compassion and action. Alph Lukau's prayers for healing our land and stopping the genocide serve as a powerful reminder that humanity cannot be insensitive to the plight of others. In his Sunday services the general overseer of AMI , Pastor Alph Lukau called upon all Africans to unite, raise voices, and work towards healing the land and bringing an end to the genocide, ensuring that such atrocities are never repeated. Pastor Alph Lukau, renowned for his spiritual guidance and powerful prayers, has dedicated himself to praying for the healing of countries, especially Ukraine, India, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. His prayers extend beyond physical healing, encompassing emotional and spiritual restoration for the Congolese people. Lukau's prayers provide solace and hope to those affected by the genocide, reminding them that they are not alone in their struggle. Through his ministry, Lukau aims to uplift the spirits of the Congolese people, helping them find strength and resilience amidst the unimaginable pain they have endured. His prayers serve as a catalyst for healing, inspiring individuals and communities to come together and support one another during these trying times. """Heal our land"" is a plea that resonates deeply with the African people and the International community. It is a call for compassion and empathy towards the suffering endured by the millions affected by the genocide. Healing the land requires a collective effort, involving governments, organizations, and individuals worldwide." To heal the land, it is crucial to address the root causes of the conflict. The genocide in the DRC demands immediate action from the international community. The staggering death toll of 15 million lives lost cannot be ignored. Alph Lukau's prayers serve as a reminder that humanity cannot remain indifferent to the suffering of others.

[hussyknee]

People seem to think this is fake because it's written in English. Apart from the racism in believing that Arab doctors and nurses aren't fluent in English (a second or official language for half of Asia), Palestinians have deliberately been addressing their audience in English on every social media, from journalists to children, because they know speaking English to Westerners immediately makes people more human in their eyes. Because language is one of the ways the imperial cultural hegemony conditions us (yes, everyone in the world) to see who qualifies as "people" and who are simply a mass of bodies who were always made to suffer and die. Gazans know this deeply, which is why they have been using English to beg and plead through social media, "We're not numbers! We're not numbers! We're people like you, we speak your language, we deserve to live!" all the while they're systematically slaughtered.

Israeli forces also encircled Al Shifa Hospital yesterday and bombed it for several hours while shooting dead anyone trying to flee including medical staff moving between buildings. Not sure whether it's still continuing because WHO lost all communications with its staff there a few hours after. The last new report said that thirty-nine babies had been removed from the incubators before the power went out. It's extremely unlikely they will survive.

Please understand that these atrocities depend on the war of attrition between governments and public attention. The momentum of public outcry is difficult to sustain through repeated stonewalling and bureaucratic intractability. When we're flooded with these reports and a sense of futility and despair replaces the anger, it allows compassion fatigue to set in and the violence to become normalized. Massacring hospitals, killing sick children and openly targeting humanitarian aid workers (Netanyahu just declared the UNRWA is in league with Hamas) will become simply more news articles that fade into the background, and open genocides will soon become part of the "lesser evil".

Take care of yourselves how you can, take distance where needed, but please never tune out and give up on the two million people for whom we are the only witness and hope. Never stop boosting and sharing the news and posts you find, never stop getting out there and joining every protest you can, however small. Anger burns out, which is why activism must depend on an immovable sense of justice and uncompromising value for human life. It's not just about Gaza, it's about the kind of evil our generation will be coerced into accepting as unchangeable and inevitable hereafter.

[mahoushojoe]

israel has just bombed al-ahli hospital in gaza, instantly murdering more than 500 people. these were wounded, children, doctors, and people seeking safety and shelter. instant and deliberate murder.

every single zionist is complicit in this genocide. every single israeli politician and soldier and everyone who has ever helped them has blood on their hands. every single journalist and every single person who spread news about "50 beheaded babies" and "they're raping the women" and "hamas uses human shields" and "global day of jihad" is complicit in this murder, including everyone who stayed silent.

i never, ever, want to hear a peep about palestinian retaliatory action ever again.

[hunrising]

all this blood is on the hands of everyone who decided to ‘stand with israel’ this week, knowingly or unknowingly, every single one of them

[librarycards]

Writers who try to do this work are told that our words don’t mat­ter. When we demand a ceasefire and an end to occupation, we are told that those words are meaningless, that they do not prompt action, and that they cause tremendous injury (as in, to demand a ceasefire or to demand that the genocide in Gaza end is to cause injury and not to demand the cessation of injury). To name a per­son, institution, state, or a set of acts as racist or anti-Palestinian or antiblack is to cause injury. It is not the racism that injures, it is not the bullets and bombs that injure, it is the words that seek to name the injury—that name a murderous structure like apartheid or settler colonialism—that cause injury.

Meaning is in crisis. And we are embroiled, everywhere, in contests over meaning—which are also contests of power, contests over living. And dying.

When Anne Boyer resigned as poetry editor of The New York Times Magazine in November 2023, she wrote on her Substack,

Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes the most effective mode of protest for artists is to refuse. I can’t write about poetry amidst the “reasonable” tones of those who aim to acclimatize us to this unreasonable suffering. No more ghoulish euphemisms. No more verbally sanitized hellscapes. No more warmongering lies. If this resignation leaves a hole in the news the size of poetry, then that is the true shape of the present.

Christina Sharpe, The Shapes of Grief: Witnessing the Unbearable

[tariah23]

:/

[bikananjarrus]

actually we deserved to see hera and zeb interact more

[nataliescatorccio]

the anti-woke crowd: euRoViSIon iS a sOnG cOnTeST iT's NoT pOLiTiCaL

also the anti-woke crowd:

[nando161mando]

It's absolutely shocking the level of devastation and life loss

[1eos]

i really cant get over ocean vuong just randomly being like 'oh palestine........how the palestinians and their supporters suffer....i also suffer....ppl think my poetry is cringe' its been 24 hrs and im still trying to figure out how this shit is related. not to put my black ass 2 cents in it but non black poc love to act like some white child in grade school thinking their food was weird is like the most grievous racialized wound u can receive. like idk how to tell u this worstie but some children of color are brutally murdered

[podoro-vines]

Do you feel safer now that I’m gone?

my heart goes to all Palestinian people affected in the massacre 🇵🇸

[samafricanreporter]

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been ravaged by a devastating genocide, resulting in the loss of an estimated 15 million lives. In the face of such immense tragedy, it is imperative that humanity does not remain insensitive to the suffering of the Congolese people. The genocide in the DRC has displace the lives of more than 7 million people, leaving behind a trail of unimaginable suffering. It is our collective responsibility as human beings to respond with compassion and action. Alph Lukau’s prayers for healing our land and stopping the genocide serve as a powerful reminder that humanity cannot be insensitive to the plight of others. In his sunday services the general overseer of AMI , Pastor Alph Lukau called upon all Africans to unite, raise voices, and work towards healing the land and bringing an end to the genocide, ensuring that such atrocities are never repeated. Pastor Alph Lukau, renowned for his spiritual guidance and powerful prayers, has dedicated himself to praying for the healing of countries, especially Ukraine, India, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. His prayers extend beyond physical healing, encompassing emotional and spiritual restoration for the Congolese people. Lukau’s prayers provide solace and hope to those affected by the genocide, reminding them that they are not alone in their struggle.

[butwhypants]

if your solution to the conflict in Israel/Palestine is the complete and total destruction of the Jewish state, you are in fact antisemitic and no amount of Kapo hand wringing will change that.

[thedreadvampy]

'it's genocidal to call for an end of Israel where do you want us to go' stay where you are or don't, who gives a shit. you just can't be the only group represented in political authority. you just don't have the right to perform genocide or land capture. you just can't be the boot stamping on everyone else's necks. 🤷‍♀️

the state is not the people. if you don't want to leave Palestine live in Palestine. but Israel does not have a right to exist and you do not have a right to stand above others by the circumstances of your birth. you do not have a right to continue to profit from an ongoing genocide. you do not have a right to supremacy. you do not have a right to gain your comfort at the direct cost of thousands of lives next door. you do not have a right to be colonial overlords. you do not have a right to an ethnostate or a theocracy. you do not have the right to continue to sell on and pass on and profit from land and resources legally gatekept from everyone outside your specific group. you do not have a right to use immigration law to prevent people from returning to their homes while continuing to artificially cultivate a Jewish majority. you do not have a right to displace people to get what you want. you do not have a right to ownership. you have a right to live in safety but you don't have a right to pay in other people's lives for that. and you don't have a right to rule. and Israel does not have a right to exist.

Jews were in Palestine before 1914 and Jews will be in Palestine after Palestine is freed. but as equal citizens not as colonial overlords.

[artistic-astral-antics]

Just finished reading the updates on Regressor Instruction Manual manhwa I purposely stock it up to binge read, and, well... spoiler alert if you haven't finished season 2 of the Manhwa.

From what I can assume...

Park Deokgoo/Deokgu was Lee Kiyoung moral compass, or at least, what's holding Lee Kiyoung from going to the deep end of no return. In the first first life, things were tough, yes, and they struggled, true. Lee Kiyoung is still scheming and calculating, but Park Deokgoo is there to keep his conscience intact, somewhat. He's still happy and have a good time, not deranged or full of vengeance or madness to kill everyone.

But then, the world in the first timeline is pretty ruined. The Masked-Man is obviously Lee Kiyoung, but he's not someone who would have cause mass destruction unless provoked. Lee Kiyoung is petty. He pays back ten fold the slight people done to him. He does thinks to his benefits, or countering what others did to him.

In the first timeline, Park Deokgoo DIED. Protecting him. There were people hunting them down. Lee Kiyoung would have targeted everyone, starting from mere pawn soldiers all the way to the higher-ups who ordered for the hunt/mess. Heck, with Park Deokgoo no longer there to ground him, to keep him from straying too far, Lee Kiyoung would go as far as destroying the world for his pain.

Thus, he became the Masked-Man.

Kim Hyunsung worst adversity.

Park Deokgoo is essential for Lee Kiyoung, if only for his mental side because Park Deokgoo is kind, loyal, and good. He can pretend that he only wants a meat shield, but it's obvious that Park Deokgoo death was what triggered him to lose control.

Then again, this is my take.

Just needed to let that out.

[commentgoblin]

super bowl bombing of Rafah

How am I to sleep tonight Knowing in the morning I will have to read The death counts of strangers on the other side of the world Strangers with names I will not know And families I cannot comfort And homes that are destroyed forever

How am I to sleep tonight Knowing that while my eyes are closed Children will be bombed Or shot Buried alive Or burned

How are we to move on from this? How have we ever moved on from this— This rhyming condemnation of humanity, This curse soaked into the earth like blood, This blood?

How do I sleep When there is so much blood It feels like I am drowning?