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School Destroyed- After The War

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School Destroyed- After The War
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Copyright: Michael Waite (mwaite) Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 22 W: 0 N: 34] (176)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2004-08
Categories: Ruins
Camera: Minolta Dimage 7i
Map: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-04-25 8:41
Viewed: 1303
Points: 4
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
My transportation broke down at night and I stayed in a small village. The next morning I got up and walked around the village with a few of the people living there. The village had been destroyed by rebels as they left the area.

The photo is of a school. It had no strategic value in the war. It, like clinics and houses were destroyed to create fear among the residents. There is one chalkboard left in the school, no paper or pencils, and no teachers (or anyone to pay the teachers) in this part of the country. The village as so many others in Liberia have much to do as they recover from so many years of war.
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Hello Michael, it is always horrible to see what people can do to other people. Liberia is not an exception. See also my pic at http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina/photo203099.htm from Europe, it is Bosnia and Herzegovina in the year 2000. Thank you for sharin this pic and for bringing the evidence of inhumanity, which still rules in many countries, people and their souls. Cheers, Michael

The fact the school building is so basic, so completely bare bones as far as schools go, adds poignancy to the thought of its cruel destruction. It's really the destruction of children.
The sharpening up of this photo helps to show just how rudimentary the school was. Yet it was essential to the children of this place.
Regards, Andrew

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