Twisted values of the world
"I think the whole world addicted to the drama
Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma
....
People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and you hear them cryin'
Can you practice what you preach
And would you turn the other cheek"
Where is the love? - Black Eyed Peas
I was checking my email the other day, after so long since the last clearing. Scrolling down the long list of unread mails, and ticking off the ones that goes straight to the bin, one mail caught my attention.
Its title was " In the Name of Religion, Or Cruelty?"
It read,
One 8 year old boy in Iran ( or was it Iraq?) was caught shop lifting. In the Name of I**** (name of the religion), he was sentenced to have his arm crushed by a car.
!!!!!
I was horrified.
And there were photos attached. The first one depicts the poor boy lying on the floor with the car beside him. His right hand was stretched out in front of the wheel of that car. There was a man squatting beside him, who seems to be the person in charge of the boy's sentence. Simply put: he's there to make sure the arm's crushed. And in the background, there's a huge crowd of onlookers. What were this stupid people thinking just standing by and watch?
I was seriously thinking twice about scrolling down the page, afraid of what i would see. But i scrolled down anyway.
This time the wheel is already treacherously near the boy's arm. The man was pressing his arm down so that he wouldnt move away. The look on the boy's face broke my heart. There really was nothing i can use to describe his expression. Perhaps, helpless, terrified? I didnt scroll down to see what would happen next, i didnt think anyone from the crowd had tried to prevent this atrocity from happening.
Deleted the mail immediately. That night i just couldnt sleep. This image of the boy's look kept coming up.
Oh, I've heard of honour killings (Definition from wikipedia- committed by members of a family against a female member of their family whom the family and/or wider community believes to have brought dishonor upon the family) in the Middle East, where women face injustice everyday by the conservative religious laws, e.g in Saudi Arabia, women are not even allowed to drive cars; in Palestine, a rape victim is seen as being at fault, and even walking on the streets with their own male relations could cause their lives. I just didnt think such misfortune and unjust would befall an 8 year old boy too. Wow, how the world has changed in the last few decades. "Cruelty" seems to reach a new and higher peak everytime i think, " Nothing can compare to that."
(Taken from http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/odds_and_oddities/ultimate_in_unfair.htm)This photograph showed a starving Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture which won Kevin Carter the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.
The photographer later commited suicide due to depression. He had taken this photo when the child was starving to death. He could have helped you know. I think he realised that, that in order to capture the most award-winning picture, the thought of saving the starving child just slipped out of his mind.I realised more and more of such things are happening and there's nothing we can really do about it. This world is so twisted.
Signing off,
Jo
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3 comments:
indeed there are many things we cannot comprehend in this world. In sightful entry =)
Tai Tai
Wat Tai Tai posted comment!!!! Wah Joanne u not bad yea!!!! :)
*blush* dont like tt la... hahaha
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