“Paradise” Lost: the Kindu Train Station #3

To find a description about these photographs please see #1 in this series. So there we are. Beautiful remnants of lost hopes and dreams. Memories of times that were but are no more. Times that were more organized and structured than they are now. But times that...

“Paradise” Lost: the Kindu Train Station #1

Paradise was never lost in Kindu, or in the DRC for that matter. The people have always suffered here: starting with the slave trade in the 1700's; then with the brutal colonization by King Leopold of Belgium beginning in the 1880's; then with the somewhat less severe...

Travels of Yellow Bird #4

Travels of Yellow Bird #4

Yellow Bird saw the people at a hospital needed some help. Actually, they needed a lot of help.One bit of help Yellow Bird could do was to replace the old surgery table which looked very old and very used. So Yellow Bird found a new table and also some friends to help...

About This Place…

"This website is dedicated to the many people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo who have suffered and died."

The writer was a journalist, prosecutor, and Canadian soldier who is now trying to help the people who live in the DR Congo.

The photographs and the commentary here are solely those of the writer and his pet dog named "Bark." The United Nations and MONUSCO have nothing to do with this website.

Similarly, the township of Puskokum in eastern Tennessee is equally not interested.