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From April 1975 to January of 1979 Pol Pot murdered nearly two million of his own people out of a population of seven million, thus introducing a new word into the English language, "Auto-Genocide" the murder of one's own people. The World just stood by and let it happen. Why was this allowed to happen? What events created this Monster? Was it the dropping of two and a half million tons of explosives by the USA on a neutral country in its' war with Vietnam? Were there other factors that led to the annihilation of a quarter of Cambodia's population? Who was responsible? How do the people of ...

In a grisly nightmare war scenario Rory tells the story of a new recruit who has been shipped out to an operational airbase on the eve of The War on Iraq in 2003. The new recruit suffers nightmares and questions himself over the validity of such a war. After his first stint in the field of battle he embarks on a hellish journey into the underworld where he encounters soldiers in many kinds of uniforms, from many battles that have been fought over the ages, who are inflicted with terrible wounds and enduring great suffering. He encounters those who have taken "The Devil's Shilling." and ...

For millenia The Middle East has been plagued by war. This millenium has been no different, with wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Devastation has been wreaked on ordinary,innocent people. Children have been indiscriminately killed, Young men have had their lives terminated before they have had the chance to live their lives to the full. War orphans abound. Widows and Widowers weep at their spouses' graves. Grand Parents have lost generations of their families. Whole communities have been destroyed and villages razed to the ground. I have lived in The Middle East for twenty five years now and ...

" The Spirit of man is Nomad, his blood Bedouin.....and so I came to live my life, not by conscious plan, but as someone following the flight of a Bird." " Only in the Desert, The Bedouin Declared, Could a man a Man find Freedom. " Wilfred Thesiger "Arabian Sands." " To live in the Dress of The Arabs, Quitted Me of My English Self, and Let me Look at The West ..... With Different Eyes." T. E. Lawrence "The Seven Pillars Of Wisdom." The Sultanate of Oman is a land of oases,deserts, rolling sands, shifting dunes and mountains upon which ancient cities have been carved from stone. A land that ...

An elderly woman, recently bereaved and virtually disowned by her only son, ponders over the meaning of her very existence............... leading to tragic consequences.

"Blurred faces loom in and out of my vision, their lips moving, yet I hear not a word. Surgical masks cover their faces. Blue gowns are splattered with blood.. I regard my uniform,bloodied and torn. My body racked with pain. I have been given an injection; I feel myself falling down a black tunnel at the bottom of which I see two silver angels whose bodies are harnessed to a chariot of gold, their wings gently flapping, waiting for me to arrive so as to carry me in their chariot to a distant place..........." I then begin my ultimate journey and pass through that thinly meshed veil into the...

High on a mountain top in an isolated region that is North of Salalah, in the Sultanate of Oman, lies the Tomb of Job, a Prophet in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. My journey is to take me to this tomb, a journey that will take three hours by car, but a journey that will take me on a mystical voyage to a time long gone, to the time of The Queen of Sheba and other such figures in The Classical Age who themselves visited The Tomb of Job on pilgrimages for this site has been a place for pilgrims for many millennia. To make my own pilgrimage I drive my car up steep mountain roads. There is, ...

War as seen through the eyes of a Muslim child. In the Desert villages of the Middle East where war is omnipresent and the inhabitants subject to indiscriminate bombing this is the story of one such village where for generations the people have lived in peace and harmony until they fall prey to the superpowers who have no hesitation in wiping out villages of The Innocent. This is the story of one such village and one of its' inhabitants, a young mentally handicapped girl. The village where this story takes place is typical of the many villages found in The Yemen. The Yemen has been at war ...

"SHORT STORIES ON THE HORRORS OF WAR."