What kind of do world we live in that creates people and nations who stand by and watch genocide take place and do nothing to help until thousands and thousands lay dead?
Sudan 2003-present (400,000 deaths)
Congo 2008, (“thousands upon thousands of rapes” U.N. quote)
Rwanda 1994 (800,000 deaths)
Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina 1992-1995 (200,000 deaths),
Cambodia 1975-1979 (2,000,000 deaths)
Hitler’s Nazi Holocaust 1938-1945 (6,000,000 deaths)
Nanking 1937-1938 (300,000 deaths)
Stalin’s Forced Famine in the Ukraine 1932-1933 (7,000,000 deaths)
Turkey 1915-1918 (1,500,000 Armenians dead)
By all accounts it seems that although the global community has vowed to never forget, and vowed “never again”, the powers that be in the global communities omitted the words ”unless it’s inconvenient to us” and their vows should have read ”never forget unless it’s inconvenient to us” and “never again unless it’s inconvenient to us“.
Granted there are groups of people and organizations desperately trying to bring attention to the current conflicts and address the conflicts, but the general apathy of people in this world is telling as the rapes, murders, travesties and atrocities continue daily.
Are we to only care if it’s our own that are attacked? And if it’s our own that are attacked and the rest of the world looks on and watches while wholesale slaughter goes on… I wonder if we would re-examine our own apathy to the genocide in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, in Darfur, and in the Congo.
No Comments Yet
No comments yet.
Comments RSS TrackBack Identifier URI
Leave a comment
