Man's inhumanity to man, part 9 million something...

Well... the facts are trickling in on the horrific wedding feast massacre in Turkey Monday evening.

When I read the initial headlines, the first thing I thought was an internecine war between religious groups that consider each other infidels (as is the sad, time-honored custom even within religions in that bitterly divided part of the world). Or perhaps it was an ethnic feud between Kurds and Turks.

But... no.

It turns out this was a feud within a single releigion, within a single ethnic group, within -- in fact -- the same family.

According to Reuters, the feud had been brewing for so long it appeared people were unclear about just why the rival members of this family hated each other so much.

The suspected gunmen and many of the victims bore the same family name, Interior Minister Besir Atalay said.

The Celebi family had been at odds over land, membership of state-sponsored village guards, and more recently over the bride, local residents said. The attack was sparked by revenge from one part of the Celebi family unhappy a relative had been passed over for a groom from another family in Diyarbakir.

Bodies started arriving late Tuesday for burial in mass graves dug by machine diggers. They had been taken temporarily to nearby morgues as the local one did not have enough space.

A imam, or a Muslim cleric, was among the dead.

"I am ashamed to be from here, this is brutality, it is like a natural disaster, an earthquake," Mahmut Yildiz, 43, told Reuters. Pointing to the freshly dug graves, he said: "I don't know how we will be able to live in peace."

Frankly, I'm starting to wonder if folks in that part of the world are even capable of it... they have so poisoned their own cultures and hearts that they have become twisted, soulless dolls in the hands of demonic fates so powerful that they brush aside the the religious platitudes and hypocrisies that jump to the lips of the powerful in that region so quickly that they are forgotten before they are even uttered.