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t. reflexion
t. reflexion
Aug 18, 2008 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

BOY SOLDIERS' GAME

BOY SOLDIERS' GAME Some boy soldiers played a game in LiberiaOn seeing a pregnant woman approachingThey argued amongst themselves foolishlyOn the sex of the foetus in her wombOne said to the other, “it is a boy in there”Another countered, “No, it is a girl”When the debate reached a crescendoThey resolved to check it out the crude wayInsanity drove the debate into diminuendoWith a double edge machete in handThey sliced up her belly into twoKilling the woman in cold blood“Aha! You see we are all correct”, they saidOn seeing the dead twins, female and male.
— t. reflexion, Aug 18, 2008

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Country/Region: NGA

Favorite Poets: Inspired by an article in an old manuscript , It reads:, AXIOMS OF PERFECTION, In the physical order – In the realization of the dream of beauty, In the moral order – In the realization of the dream of love, In the intellectual order – In the realization of dream of poetry, In the spiritual order – In the realization of the dream of the mystics

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DarkinAZ

17 years 9 months ago

Sad, sad, sad...

this does sound like a true story, and it is just heartbreaking. May God punish those whom pure evil dwells within. Sincerely, Mark
Rett

Rett

17 years 9 months ago

Please tell me this isn't real

Because if it is, it is not only sad and criminal, it is sickening. Respectfully, Rett: "Life is like a beach. Salty, gritty, somewhat fishy and at other times, downright crabby!" Rett 2008.
t. reflexion

t. reflexion

17 years 9 months ago

Sadly so,

This happened during the conflict in Liberia, part of which Ex-President Charles Tailor is standing trial in Hague for Crime Against Humanity. He took up arms against the Government of Samuel Doe, who came through a military coup, recruited child soldiers. These child soldiers were worst than adult rebels after taking drugs. Anyone who encountered them had no mercy. We had a similar situation in Sierra Leone. Read 'LONG SLEEVES AND SHORT SLEEVES' on the cite today. Thank you Mark, Rett and dead2theworld for the reading and the comments. Best wishes.
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easylife_2

17 years 9 months ago

Another interesting one,well

Another interesting one,well told too.You seem to br greatly influenced by happenstances around you,the way that I am too.