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Killing in the Name of Global Dominance, Oil, and Money
We believe what they tell us, and repression keeps us from questioning it.
Redistributing and investing wealth from natural resources into public services provided universal health care, education, advanced irrigation, homes, and the highest standard of living on the continent. The policies significantly increased gender equality, life expectancy, and literacy rates, facilitating an economically and politically stable society.
Not everyone agreed with the government’s contentious structure, and the nation had imperfections, but overall, citizens supported the system of governance. Yet, within four days, a small peaceful demonstration escalated to raping, beheading, torturing, and massacring, and the country’s forty years of peace unraveled into a brutal warzone within a month.
The violence bewildered the nation, but when a beheading video circulated, the attackers’ identities and objectives became apparent; foreign terrorists intended to overthrow the government and install a new regime. The country’s leader pleaded for the savagery to stop and offered to negotiate, but the ruthless attacks continued.
When calls to a foreign diplomat asking for help resulted in accusing the government of killing civilians and insisting the…
