(Him: Charlie)
The visit to Lebanon, once again, reminds me of war. This
time around, the war reminder is much more real and much closer physically. It’s
hard to imagine that shelling and bombing are just on the other side of the
Lebanon-Syria border. Over there, less than 100km away, life in displacement,
life in hunger, life in bloodshed, life in horror, has become a usual business.
This tragedy is unfolding just like the Bosnian War, which was frustrated by
futile negotiation and cease fires. Also similar to the Bosnian War is the
conflicting interests at the UN Security Council. The delay in any sort of
intervention at the expense of the loss of valuable lives every day!!
I feel ashamed by the selfishness of China & Russia, for
not agreeing to intervene with force. The reasoning from them may sound legitimate
in a normal sense (outsiders shall not forcefully intervene a country’s
internal affair & bring down a government), however, what happens when the
citizens have clearly made their choice by fighting to death? Our responsible
international community should facilitate Syrian people to make their selection,
not just send in “humanitarian aids”! – a 3-year-old would tell you that fighting
should be stopped first, in order to make a selection.
So what happened to Bosnia in 1995? After years of futile
negotiation and failed ceasefires, a NATO strike was finally triggered after a
massacre in Sarajevo. The strike quickly brought fighting parties to serious
peace talk and the war ended in no time!
By the same pattern, it looks like the world is waiting for
another massacre in Syria before the next move!
Sigh… the history of human being is no doubt a history of
invasions and devastation.
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