Everyday
I wake to hear sad news of violent killings, I don't only get worried, I
get challenged to confronting the powers that be, to implore them to
take an action or possibly suggest some pragmatic solutions to the
killing of innocent people in volatile places.
The concern burning in my heart at the moment, is to see an end put to the muscle flexing of the likes of Bashar al Assad of Syria, Kim Jong Un of North Korea and others in some places in Africa where people in positions of authority have gone to sleep or left a controllable crisis to escalate into a full scale security issues whose victims are often innocent people.
Indeed if I have an opportunity with Ban Ki-moon, the UN Scribe, I will demand of him the following:
1.) Reorganization of the UN Security Council
2.) A quick review of some international laws and policies as they concern human rights violation and protection
3.) A general advocacy and sensitization of the global citizens common concerns among many other demands.
You may ask why. Simple, over 2000 lives have gone in Syria. It could have been abated or even avoided but not for diplomacy and international politicking. Now, coming to Africa, we all know that implied poverty has given rise to all manner of human waste in form of violence. Unfortunately, when these crises begin, the people that are supposed to address it are the ones who busy themselves with international travels or what I may call frivolity at the risk of human lives and security, without fervid intervention. Yet, the intervention that come often, is that type that can be called medicine after death or when it is out of hand.
It will do the world no good, if we keep watching evil triumph in pockets of places across globe, while pretending that all is well, just because it is not close. Yet, whatever happens, the global citizens are made to pay for it directly or indirectly.
Some times I even wonder whether, a collaborative effort from international banks, diplomats, hotels and airlines who directly or indirectly, are in the know of the machinations of these actors of high scale carnage...will not help in curbing this human waste. Unless, we all get involved, the problems will prevail. Interestingly, the UN Scribe has a key role to play, that is why I want him to action a quick change.
The concern burning in my heart at the moment, is to see an end put to the muscle flexing of the likes of Bashar al Assad of Syria, Kim Jong Un of North Korea and others in some places in Africa where people in positions of authority have gone to sleep or left a controllable crisis to escalate into a full scale security issues whose victims are often innocent people.
Indeed if I have an opportunity with Ban Ki-moon, the UN Scribe, I will demand of him the following:
1.) Reorganization of the UN Security Council
2.) A quick review of some international laws and policies as they concern human rights violation and protection
3.) A general advocacy and sensitization of the global citizens common concerns among many other demands.
You may ask why. Simple, over 2000 lives have gone in Syria. It could have been abated or even avoided but not for diplomacy and international politicking. Now, coming to Africa, we all know that implied poverty has given rise to all manner of human waste in form of violence. Unfortunately, when these crises begin, the people that are supposed to address it are the ones who busy themselves with international travels or what I may call frivolity at the risk of human lives and security, without fervid intervention. Yet, the intervention that come often, is that type that can be called medicine after death or when it is out of hand.
It will do the world no good, if we keep watching evil triumph in pockets of places across globe, while pretending that all is well, just because it is not close. Yet, whatever happens, the global citizens are made to pay for it directly or indirectly.
Some times I even wonder whether, a collaborative effort from international banks, diplomats, hotels and airlines who directly or indirectly, are in the know of the machinations of these actors of high scale carnage...will not help in curbing this human waste. Unless, we all get involved, the problems will prevail. Interestingly, the UN Scribe has a key role to play, that is why I want him to action a quick change.
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