By: Bakir Oweida
Sunday 14 July 2013
In the small hours of the day, I woke up with the painful anger I felt yesterday evening as I watched a report on Aljazeera international about the hard suffering of Syrian women and children who are living, if we can use the word “LIVING”, In a refugees camp on the border between Syria and Turkey.
It is an affront to humanity. Thousands of women and children were queuing under burning sun, trying to grab some food and water, to prepare for the breaking of their fast, as the majority of them were observing the month of Ramadan.
I couldn’t carry on watching. I imagined the same suffering at the Syrian – Jordanian border, and wherever there are Syrian refugees, or, indeed, anywhere on earth where that sort of suffering is at work against innocent people, regardless of race, nationality, or religion. I mean those who are driven out of their houses, villages, cities, and countries, by others who dare to go on lying and claim that they are fighting, bombing, and slaughtering human lives for the sake of liberating the country, any country, from despots, or to defend the same country from extreme religious terrorists.
In civil wars launched and fought in the name of people, the people themselves always pay the heaviest and hardest price, while both fighting sides, with blooded hands, carry on their pursuit of power.
It is also very sad and shameful that the civilized world is doing almost nothing serious to stop all civil wars around the globe.
Meanwhile, one can only wonder when reading some news papers, or online columns, how far can some commentators go to defend one side against another in bloody, savage, and gruesome civil wars, or to find reasons for advocating violence.
I just can’t understand how any person with an iota of humane conscious, can go to bed, sleep comfortably, with the rest of his family safe and happy, knowing that he, she, they, have, hours before, contributed to murdering innocent people, displace them, or driving tens of thousands of women and children to refugee camps, anywhere in our twenty first century world. Yet, there are a lot of that sort around.
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