define peace...
i think i am the only one who blogs twice or more daily but i read the newspapers today and there was this small piece of news about Yoko Ono and it made me laugh out loud and i simply had to write about it in the blog. for those of you who dont know who yoko is, she is actually the widow of john lennon ( beatles). she is a japanese woman. anyway what prompted me to laugh is the news that she offered her clothes as a symbol of peace. what happened was she sat in a gallery all dressed in black and invited anyone and everyone to cut out a piece of her dress to take away. its is supposed to be for world peace. and the idiots actually cut off small pieces of her clothes and she ended up sitting in her undergarments until she was whisked away by the gallery officials. how it is supposed to bring world peace...i just dont understand.
it really amuses me that people come up with their own ideas of world peace. when malaysians came up with the idea "Malaysia for peace" and bear the symbol of white dove as car stickers etc...i was busy critising them. would bush take heed of the few malaysians protesting against the war? would the US millitary stop the war just because malaysians here were having a gathering of some sort,singing and having fun in the name of peace? its really really dumb. why can't these people sit back and think before coming up with such ideas?
peace cannot be achieved just by offering a piece of your clothes,releasing white doves into the air or singing peace songs and having peace gatherings. there is only one way to achieve it. that it by forgeting your background,culture,religion,status and the past and to start living as a human not as a Muslim,Hindu or any other religion. no...i am not against religion. in fact i love my religion. all religion teach about peace and love but somehow in the deep desire to expand the boundaries of the religion,people tend to go overboard.
the true way for peace...let's look into the ethic clash between two major tribes..Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda.the hutus and tutsi tribes have been rivals for centuries but only in the past two generations have things become brutal, in Burundi and nearby Rwanda. in burundi, the aristrocratic Tutsis ruled over the working class hutus for more than 500 years. the tribes coexisted in relative peace until the europeans came. burundi and rwanda were incorporated into german east africa in the 1890s;belgium took over after world war 1. the germans made the differences between tutsi and hutu into law:divide and conquer.
burundi became independent in 1962 with tutsis controlling the army and the government. just before and after independence,ethic violence flared. in 1972 an attempted coup led to the slaughter of some 150000 hutus..many tutsis were killed too. the latest tutsi dictator had called the first ever presidential election. not suprisingly, a hutu won. four months later,though, tutsi soldies assassinated him. the assasination prompted the hutus to slaughter the tutsis.some 800,000 Rwandans (tutsi) were methodically hunted down and murdered by Hutu extremists as the U.S. and international community refused to intervene.Rwandan citizens begged in vain for protection from the murdering mobs .
those with unfortunate tutsi identity were immediately murdered. imagine those who were your neighbours whom u call aunty and uncle just go around ambushing and killing your family right in front of you.there were rape and killings. innocent children and babies were killed..mass graves were dug. even until now some of the bodies remain unburied. it just lies in the room; all skeleton and bones. the walls are plastered with blood.the gore remains until today.
but then now the rwandan citizen are trying to forget the past and live together in harmony. imagine... having to live with a neighbour who killed your husband and children right in front of you. imagine having to see the man who raped your sisters and wife,daily..imagine having to see the man who slaughtered your baby and not do anything abt it...the cries of the murdered still rings in your head but life goes on. the rwandan citizens (tutsis) try to forget the past and forgive those who have murdered their loved ones in the name of peace to build a new rwanda for the next generation. imagine...there are even single mothers bearing the child of their rapist...there are also married woman who were gang raped and later had to watch their husbands tortured and murdered right in front of their eyes and in the end give birth to the child of their rapist. yet they struggle to make ends met and care for the child.
now tell me...would you be able to do that in the name of peace? next time its better to give it a deep thought before doing anything in the name of peace. let's not disgrace the word PEACE and piss on it!
it really amuses me that people come up with their own ideas of world peace. when malaysians came up with the idea "Malaysia for peace" and bear the symbol of white dove as car stickers etc...i was busy critising them. would bush take heed of the few malaysians protesting against the war? would the US millitary stop the war just because malaysians here were having a gathering of some sort,singing and having fun in the name of peace? its really really dumb. why can't these people sit back and think before coming up with such ideas?
peace cannot be achieved just by offering a piece of your clothes,releasing white doves into the air or singing peace songs and having peace gatherings. there is only one way to achieve it. that it by forgeting your background,culture,religion,status and the past and to start living as a human not as a Muslim,Hindu or any other religion. no...i am not against religion. in fact i love my religion. all religion teach about peace and love but somehow in the deep desire to expand the boundaries of the religion,people tend to go overboard.
the true way for peace...let's look into the ethic clash between two major tribes..Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda.the hutus and tutsi tribes have been rivals for centuries but only in the past two generations have things become brutal, in Burundi and nearby Rwanda. in burundi, the aristrocratic Tutsis ruled over the working class hutus for more than 500 years. the tribes coexisted in relative peace until the europeans came. burundi and rwanda were incorporated into german east africa in the 1890s;belgium took over after world war 1. the germans made the differences between tutsi and hutu into law:divide and conquer.
burundi became independent in 1962 with tutsis controlling the army and the government. just before and after independence,ethic violence flared. in 1972 an attempted coup led to the slaughter of some 150000 hutus..many tutsis were killed too. the latest tutsi dictator had called the first ever presidential election. not suprisingly, a hutu won. four months later,though, tutsi soldies assassinated him. the assasination prompted the hutus to slaughter the tutsis.some 800,000 Rwandans (tutsi) were methodically hunted down and murdered by Hutu extremists as the U.S. and international community refused to intervene.Rwandan citizens begged in vain for protection from the murdering mobs .
those with unfortunate tutsi identity were immediately murdered. imagine those who were your neighbours whom u call aunty and uncle just go around ambushing and killing your family right in front of you.there were rape and killings. innocent children and babies were killed..mass graves were dug. even until now some of the bodies remain unburied. it just lies in the room; all skeleton and bones. the walls are plastered with blood.the gore remains until today.
but then now the rwandan citizen are trying to forget the past and live together in harmony. imagine... having to live with a neighbour who killed your husband and children right in front of you. imagine having to see the man who raped your sisters and wife,daily..imagine having to see the man who slaughtered your baby and not do anything abt it...the cries of the murdered still rings in your head but life goes on. the rwandan citizens (tutsis) try to forget the past and forgive those who have murdered their loved ones in the name of peace to build a new rwanda for the next generation. imagine...there are even single mothers bearing the child of their rapist...there are also married woman who were gang raped and later had to watch their husbands tortured and murdered right in front of their eyes and in the end give birth to the child of their rapist. yet they struggle to make ends met and care for the child.
now tell me...would you be able to do that in the name of peace? next time its better to give it a deep thought before doing anything in the name of peace. let's not disgrace the word PEACE and piss on it!
posted by BluePixie @ 9:12 PM
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