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RIP The Aluu 4

The heavy logs landing on their faces.Their cries of please rending the air,piercing my heart.I wondered why the people stood just watching.Why are they being beaten so,I asked in utter amazement but their cries filtered my questions,nobody was ready to answer me anyway.Then,the log landed so forcefully across his face again and the blood gushed as in water from an open  faucet,it splashed on my clothes as if commanding me to help the helpless,so I screamed at them to stop beating them.As I screamed,I felt a hand shaking me vigorously.Why would they want to stop me,I thought in my mind and so I screamed the more and the hand became two,shaking and pushing me so hard that I positioned myself to attack the hands.As I grabbed the hands,I sat up but I heard my sister's voice instead screaming my name.Opening my eyes,it was my sister alright,the clock says 2:14am.Are you alright?,my sister asked me bringing me back finally to the real world.It had been a dream.I just had a nightmare!.
Watching the internet video that showed the gruesome death of these promising young men traumatized me beyond belief.The beating,even for a thief was aggressive.Hitting their faces with planks and heavy logs of wood.People watching fellow humans stripped,harassed,beaten to defenselessness and consequently burnt alive.Too much for a sane mind to comprehend.
RIP Aluu 4...I wanted so much to be quiet about this but reading about them daily just torments my silence.

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Anonymous said…
How touchy.may they RIP.so so sad
October 18, 2012 at 2:27 PM
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