At this moment I am watching a TV documentary named as "Sand and Sorrow." It is about the genocide in Darfur region of Sudan. George Clooney is hosting with his voice.
At one scene, camera zooms on an elderley man who claims to have lost all his belongings. They ask what "all" constitutes. Answer is rather simple, astonishing, more piercing: Other than the 4 walls and a hay roof, he had a bed, mattress, and a kettle... That's all. Most other houses brought to focus hardly had any more luxury, maybe an oil lamp, a table, or a couple chairs. No paint an walls...
I saw the tiniest baby (in size) of my life... Hunger stroke this kid before anyhting we keep mourning about...
United Nations Security Council is not taking an action because China and Russia are voting against. Guess the reason: Sudan feeds the ever increasing thirst of China for oil. The money doesnt stay in the premises for long: It is blowed out on expensive Russian weaponry to destroy the accommodations of the civils in Darfur.
Oil, weak governments, protection by superpowers, mandated borders, and hatred nurtured among nations against the "others."
For the rest of the world, the story hardly ever takes a couple seconds of publicity on TV, a couple lines on international newspapers.
Modern civilization, the very point we have evolved our world into, is not capable of providing robust solutions by its nature. It is usually small, marginal groups that try to raise the attention, strive to make audible the sufferings of these people.
Modern world... blood stain on every page...