Uden gudernes barmhjertighed og som offer for menneskenes vanvid, er Angola sunket ned i en af vor tids store tragedier: en tredjedel af befolkningen fordrevet, hundredtusinder af forladte børn, ødelagte byer, landets begyndende økonomiske infrastruktur brudt ned.
Bereft of the pity of the gods and victim of the madness of man, Angola was engulfed in one of the great tragedies of our time, one-third of the population displaced, hundreds of thousands of children abandoned, the destruction of towns and the dismantling of the country's burgeoning economic infra-structure.