Rights
Sixty-four civilians were killed and 86 injured when a state-run passenger bus was destroyed.......Worst massacre of civilians since February 2002 ceasefire agreement......there is no iota of doubt that it is the LTTE, says Colombo....LTTE denies involvement, blames Government for attack reads the headlines on The Hindu.
Killed and destroyed! Killed and destroyed
...think about those two words for a minute. Think about someone traveling in that bus, traveling to meet a family member, going for a wedding, returning from a funeral, making small talk, going to start a new life...BOOOOOM!!!!!
You are never to return! NEVER!
Is that acceptable to you? To me it is scary. It is unimaginable. Violence lifted its grizzly face in another part of the world. To me, it doesn't matter which side of the story you buy. To me it doesn't matter who you support. My question is...did they all deserve to die this death. Days before, a family of 4 massacarred in a small village goes unnoticed.Unfortunately, I knew someone who were associated with this family. I am told it got a mention in a BBC article. As fellow citizens of this world, are we unjust and irresponsible towards those who seek our assistance to merely exist,merely to live for the next day? Have you stood up to voice the plight of another human in adversity?
How sad, we welcome the new ones into this world, but we forget to acknowledge those that leave us, dying this violent a death. How unfair is human kind? I dont know what can prepare someone to kill another in flesh and blood. We can give it a 1000 names: homicide, warfare, terorism and so on...but infact what we did was we made a killer out of someone.
When I am born, what do i have? I am born with rights- I have the right to LIVE.
I learnt today that the very first such draft giving people rights dates back to 2050 BC, by Ur-Nammu, the king of Ur. Since then we have learnt of how wide the galaxy is, how an atom can be manipulated, how kids can be raised in test-tubes and conquered nuclear energy? Have we learnt to respect another human life. Have we? We may not kill someone, but have we learnt to respect another human?
Yet, as we grow broad and deep in our understanding of everything around us, we have not been able to see how to cure the hate within us. This issue is universal. In the current context, what are these people fighting for? Human Rights?
As a human, what rights to I possess, I ask?
We have the "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights", called the Magna Carta of Humans
http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm
Contrary to what we are supposed to believe, the fact remains that human beings having universal rights, or status, regardless of legal jurisdiction or other localizing factors, such as ethnicity and nationality, is a FALLACY . The examples are endless, The Holocaust, Killing fields (Cambodia), Checenya, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kashmir, Srilanka, Northen Ireland, Rawanda, Palestine, East Timor, Cyprus....History can teach us endless facts on the reasons why there was dissent, violence, gives us numbers, but it does not motivate us to change. It attempts to but falls in its face everyday when these acts of violence surface.
We just have new words to fight: terrorism, rebels, extremist, radicals. Seems like violence redefines itself. Who suffers?... that day it was carpenter who returned to his family.....it was a group of people who were going back home? We choose to empathize, sympathsize and hypothesize about a solution.
Have things changed in these 5000 years since the first account of civilization? We still debate and kill eachother for/over land, water, food, sustance and basic human rights.
Can we call ourselves the most intelligent creation of god...I put my head down in shame!
Killed and destroyed! Killed and destroyed
...think about those two words for a minute. Think about someone traveling in that bus, traveling to meet a family member, going for a wedding, returning from a funeral, making small talk, going to start a new life...BOOOOOM!!!!!
You are never to return! NEVER!
Is that acceptable to you? To me it is scary. It is unimaginable. Violence lifted its grizzly face in another part of the world. To me, it doesn't matter which side of the story you buy. To me it doesn't matter who you support. My question is...did they all deserve to die this death. Days before, a family of 4 massacarred in a small village goes unnoticed.Unfortunately, I knew someone who were associated with this family. I am told it got a mention in a BBC article. As fellow citizens of this world, are we unjust and irresponsible towards those who seek our assistance to merely exist,merely to live for the next day? Have you stood up to voice the plight of another human in adversity?
How sad, we welcome the new ones into this world, but we forget to acknowledge those that leave us, dying this violent a death. How unfair is human kind? I dont know what can prepare someone to kill another in flesh and blood. We can give it a 1000 names: homicide, warfare, terorism and so on...but infact what we did was we made a killer out of someone.
When I am born, what do i have? I am born with rights- I have the right to LIVE.
I learnt today that the very first such draft giving people rights dates back to 2050 BC, by Ur-Nammu, the king of Ur. Since then we have learnt of how wide the galaxy is, how an atom can be manipulated, how kids can be raised in test-tubes and conquered nuclear energy? Have we learnt to respect another human life. Have we? We may not kill someone, but have we learnt to respect another human?
Yet, as we grow broad and deep in our understanding of everything around us, we have not been able to see how to cure the hate within us. This issue is universal. In the current context, what are these people fighting for? Human Rights?
As a human, what rights to I possess, I ask?
We have the "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights", called the Magna Carta of Humans
http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm
Contrary to what we are supposed to believe, the fact remains that human beings having universal rights, or status, regardless of legal jurisdiction or other localizing factors, such as ethnicity and nationality, is a FALLACY . The examples are endless, The Holocaust, Killing fields (Cambodia), Checenya, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kashmir, Srilanka, Northen Ireland, Rawanda, Palestine, East Timor, Cyprus....History can teach us endless facts on the reasons why there was dissent, violence, gives us numbers, but it does not motivate us to change. It attempts to but falls in its face everyday when these acts of violence surface.
We just have new words to fight: terrorism, rebels, extremist, radicals. Seems like violence redefines itself. Who suffers?... that day it was carpenter who returned to his family.....it was a group of people who were going back home? We choose to empathize, sympathsize and hypothesize about a solution.
Have things changed in these 5000 years since the first account of civilization? We still debate and kill eachother for/over land, water, food, sustance and basic human rights.
Can we call ourselves the most intelligent creation of god...I put my head down in shame!
posted by Ashwin at 12:12 AM
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