War we don't want
Last night I watched a documentary about the war against Taliban in SWAT valley of Pakistan. And late night I got a chance to watch another movie DIVIDED WE FALL, similar to the previous one but made on quite different circumstances of World War II. Both
were about war so no doubt there was brutality embodied inside those stories. Corpse lying everywhere, people in tears mourning in the loss of their relatives, houses, school and hospital torn down into ashes and nevertheless, humanity vanquish by cruelty. These horror scenes were just a part of the horrific world where 70% of total population survives because of war. It seems a little bit awful to say such a thing but it true. Our 70% of the population depends on the money that comes from arms business. 42 million are displaced and living in camps, 163 are dying everyday in Iraq and don’t know how many in Sudan, Middle East, Pakistan, Somalia, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe and more. People dying in civil wars of Africa, Asia and South America are keeping us alive. If they don’t we have to.
But here in Nepal we have already lost 16000 lives and millions of property in
last decade and we still are not out of it. And everyday we fear war. News channel are broadcasting nonsense saying of our insane leaders. If not this we will go to war, this is time to do next revolution, and our democracy is in trap and many more. This is nothing more than a maniacal expression. The political interest vested deep inside them is causing these problems in Nepal. I don’t think a single leader understand this. They don’t care what people will have to go through. Just fulfill your interest by any means. Or it might be because they care about us, known about the above mention facts they are trying to contribute for saving 70% of the world population. This might be ok risking life of minority for the sake of majority. But unfortunately this is not going to work.
were about war so no doubt there was brutality embodied inside those stories. Corpse lying everywhere, people in tears mourning in the loss of their relatives, houses, school and hospital torn down into ashes and nevertheless, humanity vanquish by cruelty. These horror scenes were just a part of the horrific world where 70% of total population survives because of war. It seems a little bit awful to say such a thing but it true. Our 70% of the population depends on the money that comes from arms business. 42 million are displaced and living in camps, 163 are dying everyday in Iraq and don’t know how many in Sudan, Middle East, Pakistan, Somalia, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe and more. People dying in civil wars of Africa, Asia and South America are keeping us alive. If they don’t we have to. But here in Nepal we have already lost 16000 lives and millions of property in
last decade and we still are not out of it. And everyday we fear war. News channel are broadcasting nonsense saying of our insane leaders. If not this we will go to war, this is time to do next revolution, and our democracy is in trap and many more. This is nothing more than a maniacal expression. The political interest vested deep inside them is causing these problems in Nepal. I don’t think a single leader understand this. They don’t care what people will have to go through. Just fulfill your interest by any means. Or it might be because they care about us, known about the above mention facts they are trying to contribute for saving 70% of the world population. This might be ok risking life of minority for the sake of majority. But unfortunately this is not going to work. Recently we have seen an example of the monstrous deed in Kathmandu, 18 years old girl kidnapped, cut into pieces and murdered. In Terai news are coming everyday that people are burnt alive, vehicle are ambushed and government offices are blown by bombs. In districts dozen of people are injured in clashes between different political groups. Casualties in road accident are normal. Sometime we hardly work one day in a week because of a strike. And we still say we are not in war. We are losing dozen of life everyday; children are kidnapped now and again; property worth million is lost because of all these pointless strikes. What more do we want, isn’t this enough? Don’t measure your gain with the pile of the corpse because an individual life is not a joke, it worth more than that. We all know what the consequences of war are like. We have seen many relentless wars in human history and it is true many of them were fought because of the personal interest of the leaders. And we don’t want history to repeat at least in Nepal.
We don’t want Nepal to be something like SWAT valley or a Darfur. We don’t want cruelty, violence and destruction in Nepalese soil. What we want is peace, prosperity and harmony among people. What we want is a beginning. A beginning that will lead us to the new era. A beginning that will bring the change we are talking about. We should all remember that DIVIDED WE FALL UNITED WE WIN.
(photo courtesy: punjabpartition.com and ndtv.com)
3 comments
yes divided we fall
Really nice!
But how to united!! it's the question for everyone!
Really the nice article.But the things should be understood by the leaders which is impossible.So what can we do except just cursing our luck! -Ashok
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