"There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children," Nelson Mandela once observed. Toddlers dashed against rocks to teach an estranged spouse a ‘lesson,’ children strangled for wetting the floor, thrown in the sea by none other than their own mother or father are not scenes from a horror movie. It’s the tip of an iceberg of increasing violence against the children of our own nation. Small girls with no family security raped and strangled by perverts behind tea bushes, children ravished, stuffed in gunny bags and left to rot are a reflection of a soul dead society. A society in which primary social protection of the family is absent is surely doomed.
By Randima Attygalle-September 27, 2014,