One picture that is always stuck in my mind (I wish I could find it online..) is of a bunch of about 15 people, all facing a wall, with their hands on their heads. They're all wearing 70's clothes (this is at the beginning of the Lebane civil war, in the late 70's), bell bottoms, jackets with elbow pads, etc.. They look ... normal, they're just civilians that were rounded up. But they're being checked for IDs, one by one. And the ones that are not from the proper sect are about to get killed (at that time, in Lebanon, IDs listed your religion and sect).
The concept of 'killing by ID', as it is called, is very simple.. And brutal. It is yet another representation of human madness. I think about that as I see the unfolding sectarian madness in Iraq.
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