humanity

i finally resorted to manually looking for cases in international humanitarian courts for the competition. what i find is beyond comprehension. i am here safely behind a computer seeing words and mere words could not properly describe anything and i could not help but flinch and avert my eyes from reading these horrors. but we must. this is the first case that i found.
Jean Paul AKAYESU is the defendant. He was on a mission to locate a man. and thus seeking information house to house

Victim V- interrogated, beaten with rifles and metal sticks

Victim U - was threatened with the death of her husband and child

Victim X- was forced to lay on the dirt ground while a soldier threatened to drive over her.

and of course in other cases. the rape, the murder. The ethnic cleansing or genocide that they did is mindblowing. they rape the women so they will reproduce children of Serbs rather than Bosnian. and of course for these women the only way was to bear the child or kill the child or kill themselves.. the saddest thing is that these monsters are NOT monsters. they are everyday people you see on the street. average looking joes who i would not hesitate to smile at if our eyes ever met.

in the end. think about it. these monsters... they do not assume another identity. they are the people in our community. they sit beside us in the train. they stand behind us in the bus. they patiently queue waiting to order their food. and all the time the monster remains..