It's shocking to see how powerful, remorseless people can make defenceless, naïve children seem kind of little broken toys. It's a good image to show how little we know, or how little we are let to know, about what goes on in the oil-affluent, western-backed up countries.
As I was watching the documentary, I felt astonished, I couldn’t believe my eyes. It’s difficult for me, as an optimist, to believe we’ll share a better world, after seeing news like this, day after day. The major hope is that most of us still feel appalled and don’t get used to them. I’d like films like this would spark off as much awareness and alarm as a defeat on our local football team does. Last but not least, I would like to express my sheer admiration and gratitude for those who endure tough lives so that injustice can be lessened. I do appreciate Ansar Burney’s effort (of course, also his wife’s and other people involved).
While I was watching the video, a Plauto's wellknown sentence popped into my head: “ Man is a wolf to man”. The quotation fits perfectly this unbelivable situation in which these small children are treated as slaves by a group of heartless wealthy bastards. These boys not only live in subhuman conditions (no food, bed or any other essentials) but also lack of affection and love. Where are the International Organisations which are supposed to intervene in these extremely serious situations. As usual, the answer is bound to be just money. As Plauto said thousands of years ago, men act like wolfs over other weaker men and only sensible laws and a harsh law enforcement can stem the stream of irrationality that guide the human acts everywhere.
After watching this documentary I don´t know what to say, because I have no words. Really do we live in such an unfair world? It´s hard to believe that nowadays there are people with this lack of consciousness and with a so hard heart , or better said, without any kind of feelings. Is it fair for the entire world allowed these kind of situations? What can we do in order to erradicate them? A lot of questions with no answers (at least for me) come to me right now. Always I see some kind of injustice related with kids my heart cry. I only can think about adjectives to describe this behaviour: disgusting, outrageous, abominable, repugnant, shameless, objectionable, inmoral, and many others. Can we as individual people do something so as to change this world? Because by watching this video, I only can say “stop this machine, I want to get off”.
This terrific video shows us the depravation of the human condition. There is no oddity in this behaviour; what these kids are suffering is the continuity of an ancestral way of life that is rooted in the beggining of the Islam as a strict, merciless religion, about one thousand and five hundred years ago.Arabians have been always a people of merchants and used anything as negotiating support. And in the current days there is not a more powerful financial tool than the petroleum. Everything can be bought with it: power, land, cars, governments... and lifes. But the type of society we are moulding provides a seller to those buyers; it is the law of supply and demand. We know much from sheiks and their cronies, and the ONGs too. But, we all realize that despite the ONGs' efforts, efforts that has sometimes been curbed by its own inner corruption, the chances for changing the current staru quo are very slim. Starvation in Africa, slavery in Asia, paedophillia in the United States and northern Europe, illiteracy in South America, lack of oportunities for young people in the southern Europe... everytihng is the reflection of the same reality.In any case, we are once again to trust in youth; The future belongs to them.
My heart sank after watching this video. Children can´t be at the mercy of these criminals, victims of abuses such as depriving them of food and beating them – sometimes until death - while camels are treated like kings. There´s already an international convention which prohibits the trafficking of children, however it seems not to be effective. The question is, what can we do – as individuals - to eradicate that?
It's shocking to see how powerful, remorseless people can make defenceless, naïve children seem kind of little broken toys. It's a good image to show how little we know, or how little we are let to know, about what goes on in the oil-affluent, western-backed up countries.
ReplyDeleteAs I was watching the documentary, I felt astonished, I couldn’t believe my eyes. It’s difficult for me, as an optimist, to believe we’ll share a better world, after seeing news like this, day after day. The major hope is that most of us still feel appalled and don’t get used to them. I’d like films like this would spark off as much awareness and alarm as a defeat on our local football team does.
ReplyDeleteLast but not least, I would like to express my sheer admiration and gratitude for those who endure tough lives so that injustice can be lessened. I do appreciate Ansar Burney’s effort (of course, also his wife’s and other people involved).
While I was watching the video, a Plauto's wellknown sentence popped into my head: “ Man is a wolf to man”. The quotation fits perfectly this unbelivable situation in which these small children are treated as slaves by a group of heartless wealthy bastards. These boys not only live in subhuman conditions (no food, bed or any other essentials) but also lack of affection and love. Where are the International Organisations which are supposed to intervene in these extremely serious situations. As usual, the answer is bound to be just money. As Plauto said thousands of years ago, men act like wolfs over other weaker men and only sensible laws and a harsh law enforcement can stem the stream of irrationality that guide the human acts everywhere.
ReplyDeleteAfter watching this documentary I don´t know what to say, because I have no words. Really do we live in such an unfair world? It´s hard to believe that nowadays there are people with this lack of consciousness and with a so hard heart , or better said, without any kind of feelings. Is it fair for the entire world allowed these kind of situations? What can we do in order to erradicate them? A lot of questions with no answers (at least for me) come to me right now.
ReplyDeleteAlways I see some kind of injustice related with kids my heart cry. I only can think about adjectives to describe this behaviour: disgusting, outrageous, abominable, repugnant, shameless, objectionable, inmoral, and many others.
Can we as individual people do something so as to change this world? Because by watching this video, I only can say “stop this machine, I want to get off”.
WAF!!!, the poorer we are, the better for the richest. Extremely sad world.
ReplyDeleteThis terrific video shows us the depravation of the human condition.
ReplyDeleteThere is no oddity in this behaviour; what these kids are suffering is the continuity
of an ancestral way of life that is rooted in the beggining of the Islam as a strict, merciless religion,
about one thousand and five hundred years ago.Arabians have been always a people of
merchants and used anything as negotiating support. And in the current days there is not a more powerful
financial tool than the petroleum. Everything can be bought with it: power, land, cars, governments...
and lifes. But the type of society we are moulding provides a seller to those buyers;
it is the law of supply and demand. We know much from sheiks and their cronies, and the ONGs too.
But, we all realize that despite the ONGs' efforts, efforts that has sometimes been curbed
by its own inner corruption, the chances for changing the current staru quo are very slim.
Starvation in Africa, slavery in Asia, paedophillia in the United States and northern Europe,
illiteracy in South America, lack of oportunities for young people in the southern Europe...
everytihng is the reflection of the same reality.In any case, we are once again to trust in youth;
The future belongs to them.
My heart sank after watching this video. Children can´t be at the mercy of these criminals, victims of abuses such as depriving them of food and beating them – sometimes until death - while camels are treated like kings. There´s already an international convention which prohibits the trafficking of children, however it seems not to be effective. The question is, what can we do – as individuals - to eradicate that?
ReplyDelete