EVACUATION AIR: HOW A PRIVATE AIRLINE IN CARTERSVLLE, GEORGIA, BECAME THE GOVERNMENT'S GO-TO EVACUATION SYSTEM FOR EBOLA, AND, EVENTUALLY, EVERYTHING ELSE

摘要

Nyankunde is far too beautiful of a town for the atrocities humans have committed in it. Surrounded by savanna, it sits lush and pastoral under a clutch of hills that look like green knuckles. It is a hospital town, known throughout the country for both Congolese and international specialists. It was a hospital town in 2002, when a militia supported by a displaced tribe that had not been allowed to use the hospital raced down from the top of the hill and murdered roughly 3,000 civilians, many of them doctors and patients, in what became the single largest day of death in the Second Congo War, a nine-country conflagration that lasted from 1998 to 2003. As the violence seethed, the bricks of the hospital came down. Many of the buildings became roofless husks, toothless mouths, ruins. And even then, Nyankunde was a beautiful town.