Hi Louise, and thanks for your posts about the terrible situation people are experiencing.

World history gives many examples of a select few having total control over everyone else, and the methods they use to maintain that include brutality, religion, financial and emotional actions that keep people in the confines of control.
History also shows that these dictatorial regimes only fail when forced by losses to themselves, and the biggest loss is control of the people.

Changes will never happen until changes are made to the "Leaders" of the people, and in this case, the military supports the wrong "Leaders".
America had a civil war, just like many other countries have.
Leadership changed, people were put first into the law, and the countries behaviour changed.

Support human rights, they fight without guns for change, support education for the people, because education is suppressed as part of the control restraints imposed.
And raise awareness outside of the country so that it embarrasses the "Leaders" and brings about losses to their International reputations, and the cutoff of external money that they are given.

The Iran/China/Syrian human rights issues are good examples.
Good people controlled by evil "Leaders" and good "Leaders" have to act with actions such as sanctions, troops to protect, and trade wars, because the good "Leaders" do not want to lose face to their own country and the human rights that they have agreed to support, as part of them being elected.

I am not an expert on what you could do to help bring about the changes needed to stop this human tragedy, but my eldest sister
Lorraine married a young student from Ceylon, where much of what has been happening in your home country, was also happening in Ceylon.
She used education ( financial & social ) to earn very good money, then used that to build support for providing schools, medical centers, shops, agriculture, water supplies, housing and employment in Ceylon.
Her and her husband Sam worked without stopping, made contact with "important" people in England, Europe, and America to get support both in the physical sense and in law.

And the dire situation changed.
She established the Ceylon Tea production, sale, and distribution worldwide, which created much of the social changes needed.
She was able to bring about that change, and the "Leaders" of Ceylon soon changed their behaviour when they saw the opportunity to increase their own personal wealth just by letting the people learn, work, earn and live a productive life.

Ceylon had a change of Government, and a name change to Sir Lanka. Peace returned, the economy healed, and people started to get a better life.
"Controls" still exist, but nothing like before.
And there are many, many villages with all the needs for the people supplied that would not be there if Lorraine and Sam had not acted.

In today's world contact is instant via social medias, and you have a world-wide family here at WA.
Each one of us has our own family of friends, and they also have theirs.
So you are not alone, and neither are your family of friends, relatives, and citizens of your home country.

So lets find some ways to get help to change things. We need ideas about that, and a website giving full factual details with ways to support change is a start.

I know that my message will help you Louise, because your TFAR Processing ( see my posts ) is very good. You will consider the situation, and come up with ways to start your actions and the results will be very strong, and very good.

Be of strong heart, you are not alone.
Stephen

When I taking an Ethics class in college (many moons ago), my professor teamed us up to write a paper on anything we chose but obviously it had to deal with
Ethics. On our team was 1 guy and 3 women one of which was from Zimbabwe. We ended up doing our report (and individual presentations) about women. Because our group was so diverse (due to gender, age, country) each of us had a different perspective. Our eyes were open to some of the dark levels of human depravity and cruelty in Zimbabwe that you reference.

Prayers always for people of Zimbabwe. Having our eyes opened makes us realize how blessed we are and the need to make a difference for others.

~Debbi

This is such a great post in many ways. The most evident being the sweet, caring, and genuine selfless soul you are which has always been evident for anyone who has eyes to see.

Having had as you know the same experience as you, one can only truly know what it means when living it. The sense of reality it presents is almost impossible to be portrayed adequately in writing. It is in seeing it up close and first hand that the enormity and horrific injustice of it all that assails the senses in any sentient being.

I have just literally finished answering your messages and came in to find this. Thank you so much for the shout out it really is extremely good of you. I am honoured to be among such illustrious company!! ;

Later friend,

Be well, be safe and take care!!;

R.

Thanks Louise,
For reminding us that the world is much larger than the individual little slices in which each of us live.
No matter how great we imagine our suffering there are always others who are much worse off.
Praying for Zimbabwe and other countries whose people are truly suffering, not just from the inconveniences of the virus but lack of basic medical care and food.
This is a Tuesday to give thanks for what we have.
Blessings to you!
KyleAnn

I can't sleep nights sometimes when I think of all the children suffering from not only this covid, but from abuse and violence. I believe in praying and asking for what we want. We have free will, if we don't ask, we don't get.
On this 'talk-about-it-Tuesday', I ask that everybody, especially children be safe and happy, free from tyranny they do not understand, and be part of a loving, enjoyable environment