If you google images for 'childhood', there are so many many images which you will see. Images of children - happy, smiling, playing, singing, reading, sleeping, cuddling. In short, almost all the children seem to be what children ought to be - happy, safe and secure.
Google images for 'Syrian children' and the contrast is stark! Most of the children look forlorn, lost, unsure. What has caused the daylight robbery of the childhood of the innocent Syrian children? What is happening in Syria?
Save the Children has recently released a report called "Untold Atrocities". I couldn't go through it in one sitting. It shook me to my very core. These are stories of children, really little children, some who haven't even reached their teens.
It is hard to even imagine let alone fathom the emotional, psychological trauma these children are going through. They have been scarred, scarred for life. The cause most of them do not know. What they do know is that the country they were born in, the country they called home is no longer safe for them, for their mum and dad, for their brothers and sisters, for their relatives and friends.
The tension and conflict in Syria is about power, about blame, about democracy.
But........
........ are these children to blame?
........ are these children hungry for power?
........ is this what the fight for democracy is about?
........ will the torture these children are put through be the solution for the crisis?
Why is it that day by day we are becoming more intolerant, more violent. Why is it that the words humanity, humaneness, compassion, goodness are being replaced by animosity, hatred, meanness, spite. Is the world really progressing? Is the human species really progressing?
I wonder...........
Google images for 'Syrian children' and the contrast is stark! Most of the children look forlorn, lost, unsure. What has caused the daylight robbery of the childhood of the innocent Syrian children? What is happening in Syria?
Save the Children has recently released a report called "Untold Atrocities". I couldn't go through it in one sitting. It shook me to my very core. These are stories of children, really little children, some who haven't even reached their teens.
It is hard to even imagine let alone fathom the emotional, psychological trauma these children are going through. They have been scarred, scarred for life. The cause most of them do not know. What they do know is that the country they were born in, the country they called home is no longer safe for them, for their mum and dad, for their brothers and sisters, for their relatives and friends.
The tension and conflict in Syria is about power, about blame, about democracy.
But........
........ are these children to blame?
........ are these children hungry for power?
........ is this what the fight for democracy is about?
........ will the torture these children are put through be the solution for the crisis?
Why is it that day by day we are becoming more intolerant, more violent. Why is it that the words humanity, humaneness, compassion, goodness are being replaced by animosity, hatred, meanness, spite. Is the world really progressing? Is the human species really progressing?
I wonder...........
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