“In a transaction of this kind, a mass crime with a mass criminal and a mass victim, all must suffer: the victim immediately in blood and spirit, the criminal by his rapid and irretrievable degradation to savagery, and the remainder of the species by the necessity of either subduing the savage or submitting to him” - Vincent Sheean, 1939 [Not Peace But A Sword, III.2]
“The starving longed for death, and thought the lucky ones were those who had met their end before they had word or sight of such horrors.” - Josephus [The Jewish War, VI.213]

On Tuesday, August 4th, reports began to ap…


