That's really sad to hear.
Sometimes it's easy to loose sight of the problems from other countries when you live the "sheltered life" in US or more like the bliond life
I used to know 2 German girls who came down here for a year through the Au'pair service. Great wonderful girls. Nice people, but yet very sad for thier country.
That's not to say that we don't have problems of our own...but with Civil war on the way that's bad news.
What happens in a modern day Civil war? Are you **** to take sides under penalty of death?