Dan Eldon was a young photojournalist on assignment for Reuters in Mogadishu, Somalia, ready to leave for Nairobi on July 12, 1993, when he was called to the scene of a bombing by UN forces. An angry mob stoned him to death. The young man's life was cut short two months and six days before he was to turn 23.
I learnt of Mr. Eldon's tragic death several years ago, unable to recall exactly when. I have also known of his posthumously published books for some years.
This weekend I picked up The Journey is the Destination from the local library.
Less than a year before his stoning, Mr. Eldon wrote:
The hardest situation to deal with is a frenzied mob, because they cannot be reasoned with.A frenzied mob was what brought him down.
Yet, we are told that rule based on the masses is the best form of government devised.
Mr. Daniel Robert Eldon had been a schoolmate of yours truly. I did not know him personally or otherwise.
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