The earth is soiled with the blood of innocents. Every inch of it. Wonder if there is any place left where humans don't kill humans for senseless reasons. Leaders, whether of nations or rebel groups or terrorist outfits, create situations and the price is paid everyday by ordinary people---men, women and children, who had nothing to do with it in the first place. People who go about their lives just to make ends meet, send their children to school and put food on the table. No war is just. No war is legitimate. It never was. but, this race of homo sapiens never seems to learn. When the two world wars ended people hoped there would not be another. Peace is what everyone hoped and prayed for. But, that is one thing which will always elude us. We are not meant to have it. Because, someone, somewhere will always be unjust and want more than he needs. Strangely, it is always a 'HE'. Men in this world in their pursuit of power defined by ownership over lands, women and idealogies will always displace some legitimate humans.
If you are a normal, decent human being your stomach will turn by the blood curdling stories of barbarism, atrocities and absolute perversions that come out of conflict zones. Whether it is the state doing it or those in revolt. Killing was never so easy. Give a man a gun and he wields power over those who don't have it. With advancement in explosive devices it is so easy to kill in large numbers. And how! Dismembered bodies, heads blown off, rivulets of blood on streets. Little children, old people, women and men caught unawares. Dying a sordid death which they didn't deserve. It is no different when drones kill children from terrorists blowing people up. A recent video footage of a bomb blast in Pakistan was so disturbing, I couldn't get over it for days. A little boy of around ten who was a witness to the bloody explosion was seen crying and beating his head in despair. Is this a world we adults have created for them. When grownups can't get over war traumas of blood and gore how will children caught in such situations ever be normal.
Whether it is the Taliban or Sri Lankan forces or LTTE or Maoists or LET insurgents in Kashmir or Burmese Junta or Syrian rebels/forces or Israelis or Palestinians or Columbians or Iraqis or Afghans or Americans or NATO, its all the same in the end. Innocent lives are lost. Millions of people are displaced; living like refugees for months, sometimes years. Stories of rape, mass muders, multilations keep emerging. In places like Congo where civil war has been waging for years more than 3-4 million people are said to have died, both due to violence and because of disease, malnutrition and collapse of health services which are an outcome of conflict. Aid organisations like Red Cross and UN often come in the cross-fire too and can do very little given the magnitude of the crisis.
Most conflict zones are in some of the poorest countries and victims are mostly civilians. Not that the life of a soldier is less valuable. Strangely no other species is confronted with such violence. They live peacefully with each other, killing only to satiate their hunger pangs because nature created them that way. Humans who are supposed to be highly evolved in their intelligence have used it to only destroy the world and everything in it. Each of us has a duty to reflect, question and stop such mindless wars. Conciliation is the only way out.
To see all the places in the world where conflict is continuing click on the link below:
http://www.targetmap.com/viewer.aspx?reportId=5847
If you are a normal, decent human being your stomach will turn by the blood curdling stories of barbarism, atrocities and absolute perversions that come out of conflict zones. Whether it is the state doing it or those in revolt. Killing was never so easy. Give a man a gun and he wields power over those who don't have it. With advancement in explosive devices it is so easy to kill in large numbers. And how! Dismembered bodies, heads blown off, rivulets of blood on streets. Little children, old people, women and men caught unawares. Dying a sordid death which they didn't deserve. It is no different when drones kill children from terrorists blowing people up. A recent video footage of a bomb blast in Pakistan was so disturbing, I couldn't get over it for days. A little boy of around ten who was a witness to the bloody explosion was seen crying and beating his head in despair. Is this a world we adults have created for them. When grownups can't get over war traumas of blood and gore how will children caught in such situations ever be normal.
Whether it is the Taliban or Sri Lankan forces or LTTE or Maoists or LET insurgents in Kashmir or Burmese Junta or Syrian rebels/forces or Israelis or Palestinians or Columbians or Iraqis or Afghans or Americans or NATO, its all the same in the end. Innocent lives are lost. Millions of people are displaced; living like refugees for months, sometimes years. Stories of rape, mass muders, multilations keep emerging. In places like Congo where civil war has been waging for years more than 3-4 million people are said to have died, both due to violence and because of disease, malnutrition and collapse of health services which are an outcome of conflict. Aid organisations like Red Cross and UN often come in the cross-fire too and can do very little given the magnitude of the crisis.
Most conflict zones are in some of the poorest countries and victims are mostly civilians. Not that the life of a soldier is less valuable. Strangely no other species is confronted with such violence. They live peacefully with each other, killing only to satiate their hunger pangs because nature created them that way. Humans who are supposed to be highly evolved in their intelligence have used it to only destroy the world and everything in it. Each of us has a duty to reflect, question and stop such mindless wars. Conciliation is the only way out.
To see all the places in the world where conflict is continuing click on the link below:
http://www.targetmap.com/viewer.aspx?reportId=5847
