Okay, so sorry to interrupt your Valentine festivities here (I don't
know about you, but where I live there's an ice storm, and the schools
are closed, and there's NO CHOCOLATE, so why not go after the hard
news?), but I ran across this piece of news about Rwanda. Remember Rwanda? That would be the country which engaged in racial genocide
of some 500,000 - 800,000 (the numbers are conflicting) members of
ethnic groups, which could have been stopped by UN or US involvement
but was a case of too little, too late. Yeah, that Rwanda.
I know, I know. I couldn't watch the movie "Hotel Rwanda" last
year either, and had to turn it off.
So why am I interrupting
your Valentine's Day love-fest to bring this up? Because
apparently, amid the past ugliness, there's been such a resurgence of
hope in the country that women are bearing an average of six children apiece
(!!!) in an effort to regain the lost population. Wow, that's hope,
isn't it? I love that. The only problem is, the country's
so damn poor that all those children really can't be supported.
Oops, some more "too little, too late". So now the country's
thinking about trying to create incentives for families who adhere to a
new minimum of three children per. China, it's not. But
maybe someday this overpopulated country will find its balance; I certainly
hope so.
Okay, back to your regularly scheduled chocolate now.
