2014년 8월 1일 금요일

Propaganda wars over casualties

  I thought now we are better than this but everything remained the same. A lot of Palestinian children were killed. Nobody answers why their lives had to be destroyed yet once again we all ravel into another propaganda war.

  It brings me to think about an incident happened in South Korea. More than three months ago, there was a sunken ferry incident in the west sea of Korea. Slightly less than 300 people were drowned to death, in which most of them were students from the same high school. People were mad because the investigation report released later said they could well be saved if only there were a broadcast to make them leave the ferry in the first three hours after the rapid turn of the ferry. Or if only the monitoring system didn't miss the ferry and there were the necessary communication among the centers so that they could dispatch enough rescue teams once they noticed the incident. Or if only the cargo inspector didn't let the ferry sail with its overloaded freight in the first place.
"We have to understand why they had to die. We need to stop these incidents from our generation on."
What was wrong in our system? Their parents, teachers, and others have been questioning, protesting, and trying to understand this "why" ever since. But nothing has changed. Only the system has split into two and started blaming on each other's propaganda. People ask why from one side and they are denounced as insurance whores or even deemed as a subversive political group. Seriously?

  Why the Palestinian children and the South Korean high school students had to die? International politics and its political interests make people believe, so easily, that these are the difficult problems. But are they really?

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