THE BLOOD SHED MUST STOP!
ISIS has been mounting pressure on the city of Ramadi, 70 miles West of Baghdad, several months before its final capture on Sunday. Even before that, another major town of Mosul in the Northern Iraq was captured. Elite army units like the Swat force and the Golden division suffered terrible defeat and were seen running away leaving behind heavy military equipments .These events have completely left the world gasping for an answer, for the casualties are in thousands. Mutilated bodies of women and children littered the roadsides, fleeing refugees poured out in total daze as to what has really gone wrong?
The international community has allegedly denied any help from Iran and the Shia militias. The rivalry between Kurds, Shia and the Sunnis is as sinister as bloody as can be.
Significant part of the human population is engrossed in one struggle or the other, staining the landscape with blood and anguish in its trail. In Nigeria, there is no official figure of people killed by the notorious Boko haram, which seemed to have gained successes out of Government’s passive posturing to the war. Over two million people must have been brutally massacred in schools, worship places and markets. Kidnappings and abductions of women and children were cruel characteristics of the boko haram terrorists.
Where do the terrorists get their weapon supplies? How do they fund their operations? Why does the so-called super powers powerless in stopping these massacres? It is so clear that the UN, NATO, AU etc are sliding down into becoming obsolete and ineffective. What they do at best is providing settlement facilities for refugees fleeing from trouble spots but they do not stop trouble from happening or even escalating. Boko haram in Nigeria are having a free run for more than 6 years now.
The horrific slaughter that took place during World War 1 (WW1) saw the emergence of the League of Nations with a clear and simple mandate to ensure war never broke out again. But wars did break out.
The League had no military force to counter aggression between nations, it did not envisage fault lines within nation-states as well; moreover, America under President Woodrow Wilson refused to join in, Russia was turned down membership because it was a Communist country then. Germany too was denied entry because it was seen as aggressive as the culprit that started the war. France and Britain suffered massive devastations both financially and militarily during the war as such were not enthusiastic in the friendship. And so the League of Nations collapsed.
Nation-States became greedy, bullies, aggressive, intolerant; making it possible for another major deadly war involving about 30 countries to break out: World War 2 (WW2) signifies the invasion of Poland in 1939 by Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler. It was estimated that more than 85 million people died, both civilians and military. In Germany alone, there were approximately more than 8 million people killed. “24 million in Soviet Union, 5.6 in Poland, 20 million in China, and South Africa 11,900” according to The National WW11 Museum in New Orleans. What is disheartening is that the total deaths of civilians far surpasses that of the military who were in the battle front, more than 50 million civilians died in that war.
A poet wrote that ‘blood flowed in waves, down in clogged ruins...’ Who will stop this blood flow?
After the WW11, United Nations (UN) was born in 1945. Like its predecessor, UN was an international Organization with currently 193 member States, admitted to membership by decision of the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council. The 15 member Security Council has the primary responsibility for maintenance of international peace and security; out of that 5 are permanent members – United States, United Kingdom, China, France and the Russian Federation. These, ironically, are the threat to world peace!
The show of inequality itself is seen by critics as ‘disdainful’. “Power of veto” also gives the 5 countries de-factor control over the UN and by extension the whole world. These are undemocratic elements smuggled into the UN charter which has provided strong teeth to tear away most necessary complaints against aggressors, as exemplified in the Palestinian struggle for recognition of a State status.
Apologists of the UN effort in maintaining world peace cite the emergence of non-state actors as the main challenge to world peace. But isn’t it obvious of their interference and toppling of ‘unfriendly’ Governments? The Arab spring was a classical example.
I always insist that it is far safer to allow a dictatorial regime run its course than open doors for war. The Iraqi and Syrian bloodletting suffices.
From Ukraine to Burma, Central African Republic (CAR) to Nigeria have brought up gory images of death and massacres while the Un Security Council sat in their comfort zones and watched.
Many are now asking the question, who protects the ordinary international citizen from struggles that does not concern him? Who protects the little kid in Gaza? Who protects the innocent woman in Ukraine? Or the helpless people of Rohingya?
There is a serious silence of inability among the Security Council members and a seemingly sinister relationship between manufacturers of war machines and the non – state actors terrorising the global peace. This inability has led to the proliferation of light weapons as well as the trafficking of heavy war equipments by the military industrial complex, which has made all of them accessories to war crimes.
The Security Council cannot claim ignorance over the channels terrorists or aggressors acquire money, technology and skill they use in operating so smoothly and easily without detection. This must be stopped!
The international community has allegedly denied any help from Iran and the Shia militias. The rivalry between Kurds, Shia and the Sunnis is as sinister as bloody as can be.
Significant part of the human population is engrossed in one struggle or the other, staining the landscape with blood and anguish in its trail. In Nigeria, there is no official figure of people killed by the notorious Boko haram, which seemed to have gained successes out of Government’s passive posturing to the war. Over two million people must have been brutally massacred in schools, worship places and markets. Kidnappings and abductions of women and children were cruel characteristics of the boko haram terrorists.
Where do the terrorists get their weapon supplies? How do they fund their operations? Why does the so-called super powers powerless in stopping these massacres? It is so clear that the UN, NATO, AU etc are sliding down into becoming obsolete and ineffective. What they do at best is providing settlement facilities for refugees fleeing from trouble spots but they do not stop trouble from happening or even escalating. Boko haram in Nigeria are having a free run for more than 6 years now.
The horrific slaughter that took place during World War 1 (WW1) saw the emergence of the League of Nations with a clear and simple mandate to ensure war never broke out again. But wars did break out.
The League had no military force to counter aggression between nations, it did not envisage fault lines within nation-states as well; moreover, America under President Woodrow Wilson refused to join in, Russia was turned down membership because it was a Communist country then. Germany too was denied entry because it was seen as aggressive as the culprit that started the war. France and Britain suffered massive devastations both financially and militarily during the war as such were not enthusiastic in the friendship. And so the League of Nations collapsed.
Nation-States became greedy, bullies, aggressive, intolerant; making it possible for another major deadly war involving about 30 countries to break out: World War 2 (WW2) signifies the invasion of Poland in 1939 by Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler. It was estimated that more than 85 million people died, both civilians and military. In Germany alone, there were approximately more than 8 million people killed. “24 million in Soviet Union, 5.6 in Poland, 20 million in China, and South Africa 11,900” according to The National WW11 Museum in New Orleans. What is disheartening is that the total deaths of civilians far surpasses that of the military who were in the battle front, more than 50 million civilians died in that war.
A poet wrote that ‘blood flowed in waves, down in clogged ruins...’ Who will stop this blood flow?
After the WW11, United Nations (UN) was born in 1945. Like its predecessor, UN was an international Organization with currently 193 member States, admitted to membership by decision of the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council. The 15 member Security Council has the primary responsibility for maintenance of international peace and security; out of that 5 are permanent members – United States, United Kingdom, China, France and the Russian Federation. These, ironically, are the threat to world peace!
The show of inequality itself is seen by critics as ‘disdainful’. “Power of veto” also gives the 5 countries de-factor control over the UN and by extension the whole world. These are undemocratic elements smuggled into the UN charter which has provided strong teeth to tear away most necessary complaints against aggressors, as exemplified in the Palestinian struggle for recognition of a State status.
Apologists of the UN effort in maintaining world peace cite the emergence of non-state actors as the main challenge to world peace. But isn’t it obvious of their interference and toppling of ‘unfriendly’ Governments? The Arab spring was a classical example.
I always insist that it is far safer to allow a dictatorial regime run its course than open doors for war. The Iraqi and Syrian bloodletting suffices.
From Ukraine to Burma, Central African Republic (CAR) to Nigeria have brought up gory images of death and massacres while the Un Security Council sat in their comfort zones and watched.
Many are now asking the question, who protects the ordinary international citizen from struggles that does not concern him? Who protects the little kid in Gaza? Who protects the innocent woman in Ukraine? Or the helpless people of Rohingya?
There is a serious silence of inability among the Security Council members and a seemingly sinister relationship between manufacturers of war machines and the non – state actors terrorising the global peace. This inability has led to the proliferation of light weapons as well as the trafficking of heavy war equipments by the military industrial complex, which has made all of them accessories to war crimes.
The Security Council cannot claim ignorance over the channels terrorists or aggressors acquire money, technology and skill they use in operating so smoothly and easily without detection. This must be stopped!
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