Sunday, May 10, 2009

Father Sergei Ryzhkov

It's amazing how people can survive in the shantytown I'm visiting, no water or electricity. The father and I began to talk about the suffering he witnessed, how men had crushed body parts or were infected with the disease. They all were committing suicide to prevent infecting others. The father would go around and give them vodka and bless them or pray of their soul. The father then talked about a revelation he had where suicide was considered a sin, so he began to kill the infected soldiers himself. I think that the father went a little crazy becasue at the end of our interview a boy told him he found someone who may have been hurt/infected. I think the father would have killed me, had I felt sick.

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