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STAND TALL FOR GAZA
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I am not going to be long! I am so upset and angry that my fingers are shiverring above the keyboard. I am not supporting Hamas, nor saying Israel is wrong fighting against resistants. I am talking about children, young men and women, innocent people dying under Israel's attacks. Life shopuld not so easily and cowardly taken away. I can't believe it from people who experienced and know the bitter taste of mass murder and persecution.
I STAND TALL AND THROW MY SHOES AT THE FACE OF ISRAEL. AND I WON'T MISS MY TARGET!

J'ai le coeur lourd de douleur et la main moite en pensant aux attrocités vecues par les populations de Gaza. Je me sens térriblement impuissant. OUI, LES LARMES ET LA NAUSEE NE PEUVENT RIEN POUR UN ENFANT EN TRAIN DE MOURIR! L acommunauté internationale ne fait rien, ou en fait ne peut rien. Je ne soutiens ni le Hamas ni Israel, mais je pense qu'Israel se trompe de combat! Tuer des femmes et des enfants ne fera que donner du souffle à la flamme de la vengeance. Si j'étais à Gaza, impuissant devant le corps du seul parent qui me faisait croire en la vie, je deviendrai un des plus farouches combattants du HAmas.
Je suis surpris par les ations de l'Etat Hebreux qui mieux que quiconque, connait le prix de la persécution et de l'indignation. Je ne parle pas de motifs de guerre ou d'auto défense, je parle d'enfants innocents qui tombent sous les balles pour des motifs qu'ils ne comprennent meme pas.
JE LANCE MES CHAUSSURES A LA FACE D'ISRAEL! ET MOI, JE NE MANQUEREZ PAS MA CIBLE!

January 20, 2009 | 11:29 AM Comments  0 comments

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The Right to be a CHILD
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Human beings, as almost all living species do, naturally feel the need to protect their children. Conventionally accepting that it is against civilisation to defend them by the lethal “jaws and claws”, we agreed on some universal laws to keep them far from our world’s dangers. So many conventions, declarations and charters are talking about Children Rights. Let us not focus on these ones nor annotate them.

Are children sufficiently and sincerely protected?
Allow me to answer no to that double shutters question. The legal measures taken to protect children seem in reality to be texts guaranteeing us adults a mind at rest. Setting rules is useless when we cannot make sure they are respected.
Every child has the right to access essential services. Let us reduce “essential services” to education, food and clean water, health services and safety. We do not need any expert’s opinion to assert that more than many children in the world do not attend school, eat on a daily basis or know what a needle or a stethoscope is. What we do to fix this situation is just not sufficient.
I do not think poverty can be a legitimate excuse to justify what could be qualified as “criminal negligence”. Most governments have enough resources to build a strong army or ensure their officials due comfort. In addition, richer countries and institutions give them money to solve priority problems. Children are not important enough to devote a budget to make sure they enjoy basic advantages they deserve.
Children are not sincerely protected. I witnessed on many occasions the capacity the world has to gather and give an effective response to global issues. The most recent example is for sure the sincere and tremendous efforts so called developed countries are making to solve the economic crisis. So much money is being injected in banks and financial institutions. I am not a specialist of finance but I tell myself that this money has not been saved to be used in case of such crisis. What would be the effects of the same amount of money devoted to give food to children in Darfour or in Somalia? The situation in those places is similar, or even worse than the Tsunami. Tsunamis generally surprise its victims as they are prompt. Hunger and thirst take long time, inflicting human and beasts long-lasting sufferings and irreversible traumatisms.
I personally strongly support and recommend UN and superpowers to violate the right a country has to manage its internal affairs and crisis as soon as children are in evident danger. If the world accepts to see countries waging war to others to impose “democracy” to dictators, we should accept seeing an army stopping rebels forces to avoid children dying for political causes they do not understand. Let us enter in Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Darfour, Democratic Republic of Congo and everywhere to operate an illegal but positive incursion or even brigandage to save the children. The world has the mean to do it. But it seems children are just not important enough.

What consequences?
We do not need to resuscitate Nostradamus to foresee the consequences of neglecting “the world most important citizens”. The system we have chosen to live in requires a minimum of education to access basic resources for a decent life. How do people want illiterate (in terms of moral and technical skills) children to become wise and honest adults? It is a duty for us to give the children the best tools to face a world they did not choose to enter. Giving a child education is one of the best counter-attacks against poverty in the world.
In addition, I am not sure a child raised in an extreme violence would become a peaceful adult. Survivors of atrocities, famine and epidemics would consider weapons as the most valuable tools to earn their living. Many teenagers not only joined rebel troops by obligation but also by admiration. Every child’s ambition is to become someone respected and admired in the society like pilots and doctors. But a child born and raised in the heart of a war zone would like to become a soldier, a powerful and respected general with big and redoubtable machine gun.
Children who never dreamed, sang, drew birds nor believed in Santa Claus are potentially dangerous for their society. Helping them to be children is solving our contemporary issues. It may be too late for us to change the world into a better place, to make a sustainable change. If we do not give the future generations the means to eradicate HIV-AIDS, poverty or gender discrimination, it would also be too late for them to realise this vision. Let us stop the infernal loop of a world working in a shaky and self-destroying way. Let us stop violating THE RIGHT TO BE A CHILD .Let us give the children a chance.

Ba Coulibaly

December 25, 2008 | 1:58 PM Comments  0 comments





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