Delayed Impact
I'm officially intrigued.
Over a month ago, while researching this column, I did a web search for any references to the disappearance of Hermelin Mavanga. At the time, Google offered one match (this one, in fact).
Today, wondering if there might have been any progress in his case, I ran the same search, with very different results. Eight separate sites, including mine, now mention him in some capacity. He disappeared in May of this year, and in the initial three months of his disappearance, he had generated precisely one internet reference, yet in month four, there are suddenly seven more. What's that all about?
Of course, I think the more recognition of his case the better, but I can't help thinking that this runs against the expected order of these things. So I'm intrigued.
October 1st, 2002 - 09:05
Wow, spot on with that column.
Whenever there’s a minutes silence or a televised service to remember one (or two) of these poor sods, I always think how badly other parents of murdered children must feel.
Why wasn’t thier child good enough for this? Thier children had the misfortune of being the wrong ethnicity or being killed when something more ‘important’ was happening in another country.
It’s the same when children in need of organs are singled out at Christmas. What about all the other kids? Don’t they need organs through the rest of the year? Or is it just one kid at xmas that is in need.