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“Today it is them tomorrow it may be you – Injustice Is Contagious. Injustice is contagious!”. “The slaughter in Syria should outrage us. Yet still, we just shrug” – Jonathan Freedland. Can anyone of you guarantee that such an incident won’t affect your life or life of one dear to you? History is full of events when people didn’t take action, thinking simply that this catastrophe will not affect their lives but now we should not kid ourselves (don’t you think that).
Just look at today’s front pages. Almost everything and anything is more interesting than the genocide occurring in Syria, Myanmar, Iraq, Afghanistan, Burma, Somalia, Sudan, Kashmir, and Pakistan. Can anyone of you imagine being dumped in the sea? Lost all your possessions and your family? Can you imagine walking all day silently seeking, a safe place to stay? Can you imagine being woken at night by bomb blasts and gunfire, your city alight?
OK! Let’s imagine. Imagine witnessing your husband being beaten bloody in front of you and your children. A few nights later, you are shaken awake by a loud explosion. You cough your way through the dust-filled air to the bedroom and there, you find your child’s shattered body under a pile of rubble. These are the real stories from families living through the hell of genocide. For the last few years, there has been a disaster unfolding on our doorstep and we have known that a civil war is raining horror on Syria and guess what we have got used to it. Shame on us.
The genocide of the Rohingya Muslim population in Myanmar rejects the claims of the world community about the protection of the fundamental Human Rights. Innocent Rohingya children, helpless women, and powerless men are not hopeful for the protection of their life and the hope for life is fading, while a chance at life is all that is left either by staying with consistent fear of being burnt alive or by sailing towards the Bay of Bengal.
The acts of killing, causing serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions to bring physical destruction, and forcibly transferring children to other groups amount to the crime of genocide. All this happening with the Muslims in different parts of the world which needs urgent attention of the world community. Well, what will fill the void between the rights on paper and delivering them to the hopeless humans?
The existing legal framework applicable to the crime of genocide, although provide proper protection, on paper, to the groups of people against whom the crime of genocide is being committed. Despite, the existence of a proper legal framework, inadequate implementation has been seen at both international and national levels which have left the victims of genocide hanging in the middle. While the loved ones are being murdered or lost in the sea, the world seems to become a smaller place now to accommodate stateless human beings.
The world community has the responsibility to take the solid steps in stopping the genocide but UN and states are failing to prevent or even punish genocide because they find their own interests get in the way as said by AMAL CLOONEY and like Amal Clooney every UN supporter must be ashamed of themselves.
If it’s not at the international nor at the national level then it’s time to act at the individual level. So please take action before it’s too late. Please don’t be silent anymore. Please stop it. Please save those scared children.
Your silence kills them. Your silence kills them. This silence of ours is complicity. Paying attention, making a noise at the very least has some value, it is better than “the silence”. Move, change, do anything to save all the minorities and victims of unjust wars and genocide. Well, what makes the persecutors act so inhumane? Is that the greed of power?
Enough is Enough!
