"As soon as we try to settle, war comes again. We are tired."

"As soon as we try to settle, war comes again. We are tired."
Kula Gbelley
Who has been fleeing gunfire in Liberia for more than half her 24 years.
"Before the war, you couldn't move here, there were so many people. Now there is no security in the streets and people are afraid to come."
Zookeeper Sahad Jassem Ahmed
Lamenting poor attendance at the reopened Baghdad zoo.
"Unless the body is burned on a wood pyre, the soul does not get salvation. When the flames leap up to heaven, then you get the satisfaction the soul is set free."
Bachchan Singh Bahadur
On a centuries-old Hindu funeral tradition.