Posts Tagged ‘violence’
There are only so many ways to say something
Earlier this week, I went through recording after recording from Sierra Leone–interviews with forced wives, and with women who suffered every denigrating crime even without being taken in marriage; interviews with ex-rebels, one so young he said he had to be taught how to rape; hour after hour of awful stories, each living in the [...]
How do you know what it means when bombs go off?
Last night, shots and shells fell near the same city that brought me such needed reprieve only a week ago. The FNL lashed out at Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, with more severity (if by severity, you understand “mortar fire” ) than the country has seen in at least a year. At grad school, we [...]
I am a freelance journalist and multimedia producer who covers human rights, Africa and foreign affairs. [