God is in the suffering????

Who in Cambodia wins?  What was achieved by the Khmer Rouge?  What end was served by the death of 1.7 million people during the Khmer Rouge Campaign?  What point is there ever in such suffering? At such a horrific level?  The horror, terror, death and destruction is so widespread and simply so bad, I cannot make sense of it.

The suffering is hard ( but yet possible?) to ignore.

And now, what is achieved by an International Court Process that tries and sentences key figures in the Khmer Rouge Campaign?  What will 30 years in prison for this man do?   What will this sentence do to the 1.7 million dead?  Or to the many others who suffered through imprisonment, interrogation, torture, deprivation..to name a few of the tools of this regime? Will it alleviate the suffering?  Will it provide some symbolic form of a bandage to a wound that seems so deep it becomes unfathomable?

I cannot make sense of it.  I want to.  And I feel that as a person who seeks (and perhaps claims?) to live by the Gospel, surely there is a message of something here?

And all I see is the suffering.  And perhaps that is all we must see.

God where are you in this?
Are you anywhere in this?
Are you in the suffering?

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