The disasters in Burma and China are tragic; they show the enormity of nature’s power and the ...
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The disasters in Burma and China are tragic; they show the enormity of nature’s power and the helplessness of humans against it. Yet the images of people helping each other, be it around the swampy waters of the Irrawaddy River delta, Burma, or the urban areas of Sichuan, China, shows how the human spirit can challenge adversity.
Even an economic and military power like China sees that it is right to ask for and accept help from others. Witness their request for equipment and expertise to dig through the rubble to find survivors. It is refreshing to see that even a regime that has no truck with dissent from it's citizens or criticism of it's human rights record - witness the shambles of the Olympic torch as it trekked across the globe - has the courage to do the decent thing in the face of overwhelming adversity.
The big tragedy is that the junta in Burma are so steeped in their imagined power, they seem impervious to the dire needs of their own people. Our leaders, in the west, are total hypocrites – the same leaders who took such a moral high ground and attacked a country on the pretext of imaginary “weapons of mass destruction” seem gutless to give relief to those who face hunger, disease and death. This episode also shows up the UN for the shambolic mess that it is.
As a person living in the well-off West, it is clear to me that our own humdrum day to day troubles seem trivial by comparison. I feel ashamed of our leaders and our mass silence. Maybe mass media has numbed our senses and blinded our hearts so much that we cannot even "see" the pain and death on our TV screens.
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Jayji
very crisp and to the point! that's what happened during the last earthquake
regards
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It is sad that we remember the barriers of caste, creed and nationalties at time of such tragedies forgetting the fact that first of all we are human beings ........We also forget the fact the wrath of nature spares no one...it can happen to any state/nation..........yash
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Thanks!
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jayji,
that was a straight from the bat blog
short but sharp. biting..
you are right where is humanity gone ?
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