These women and children have worked the land and themselves dry, trying to survive. Whatever potential they had to nurture themselves had to be turned towards survival. Inventiveness and creativity have been part of the struggle to survive. This however does not belie the fact that they had been led by hunger and privation onto the altar of globalisation. The globalisation of militarism that brings profit to those who manufacture and sell arms and mines, is an idol fed with the limbs and stomachs of women and children.
Childhood is sacrificed and women are left to mourn the death of their children.
We are invited to see how it causes welfare sources to dry up and to see the inevitable sacrifice of the women and children. But this event is not for mourning. A victim mentality will not empower women and children. Yet the sacrifice of human potential cannot continue. There are no easy solutions.