Saved from a lynching
I've been meaning to write something about Kenya, but I've felt rather wordlessly caught between knowing that decades of political neglect and carelessness would inevitably bring the country to its knees, as it has, and the shock and horror of seeing those faces I know so clearly being brutally hacked in bouts of senseless mob madness. The politicians are taking so long to wrangle this out and we're all waiting and waiting. But, anyway, the wounds are too deep to be solved by a single political agreement. It's been festering for a long time.
There is one story in particular, in all this, that caught my attention. By chance it calls on that tired old issue, should photojournalists distance themselves from the violence they witness or should they intervene when a life can be saved?
Recall Kevin Carter from the Bang Bang club? The man who photographed a vulture about to hobble over on to a starving child? Recall the flack that he got for not intervening? Today I'd like to bring you this story of 31 Jan 2008, a Kamba man Saved From a Lynching as reported by the amazing Vigilante journalist.
Submitted by Philip Cartland on 1 February 2008 - 5:58pm.