Srebrenica
The AntiCentenarian wants to mark the Anniversary of one of the worst events in modern memory- the massacre at Srebrenica over a 3 day period of calculated brutality in 1995. This, along with what has occured in Rwanda earlier in the 90's and what's occured in Sudan more recently stand as some of the worst events we've stood watch over. Bill Clinton called Srebrenica the event that was the start of the end of genocide in Europe- it wasn't until Srebrenica became known that the US intervened in Bosnia.
We've got a lot on our minds these days; but it's hard to forget that there's been both hope and neglect in the world- and there's always meaningful places that we can do more, like Africa, and places that we must do more, so that we don't allow Srebrenica to ever scar human memory again.
We've got a lot on our minds these days; but it's hard to forget that there's been both hope and neglect in the world- and there's always meaningful places that we can do more, like Africa, and places that we must do more, so that we don't allow Srebrenica to ever scar human memory again.
posted by General Stan at 9:35 PM
1 Comments:
Africa troubles me because people don't really pay attention to it. They don't realize the death tolls in places like the Sudan, or Rwanda before it. Its all a little too, "Oh some Africans are killing Africans over there" for me. Or at least, that is what I see around me. And our important people, our leaders, only concern themselves when we can get something out of it.
I continue to hope, that people will pay more attention, both regular and "important." Whether that is like something through Live8 or good folk like yourself talking and writing about it. And maybe, just maybe it is.
My thoughts were similar after 9/11 however. As sad and dark as the Towers was, I was minorly uplifted by the fact that finally, finally, people were paying attention to what is going on in the world around them. (I know I wasn't the only human being paying attention more than I ever had.) I mean, maybe we can cut off these inexcusable human atrocities at the pass, just by opening are fucking eyes from our Starbucks and Self-Interests to see that the Earth is not flat or ends where our borders do.
But very little seems to have changed. We are a little more apt to react strongly since then, whether that is on a personal level or an executive one, but we are still tragically myopic.
I continue to applaud the spreading of this kind of information. Showing people, telling people, REMINDING people.
Good post GS.
JR
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