Architecture Dead City
posted by on October 6 at 11:59 AM
The skeletons of buildings:
The bombed-out buildings are shocking enough.There are street after ruined street of them in the centre of Mogadishu.
Some have been reduced by shellfire to rubble. Others retain a building-like shape - the rough skeletons of once-ornate Italian colonial apartment blocks or shopping arcades.
But the really eerie side to many parts of Mogadishu is the lack of people
It’s not as rubble but as “rough skeletons” that we can see the actual death of a building. Like a pile of ash (of papers, a body, leaves), rubble is itself and not what it was (a house, a dam, a statue). The sum: for the death of a thing to be seen as a death, it must retain some of its living form: “the once-ornate Italian colonial apartment block.”
note that the rubble has been scavenged.
Can anyone share pictures of what it looked like before?
American's can stop and look at what they've done to Iraq. Hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands upon thousands of lives. We simply cannot bully the world this way.
Somalia, 1984:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSfJp-4AQWY
The international communities and the media, they love to talk about the genocide in Darfur cuz is ordered by the Sudanise government, while the genocide and the displacement of millions of people and the total distruction of mogadishu is ordered by Bush. This is the killing fields of Bush and no one dares to talk about it.
The comments to that video show why it now looks the way it does.
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