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The Syrian tragedy

. Une fillette blessée par une bombe à Damas le 26.10.2012. Galerie de FreeDomhouse. (CC BY 2.0)

Une fillette blessée lors d’un bombardement à Damas le 26.10.2012. Galerie de FreeDomhouse. (CC BY 2.0)

When will this massacre in Syria stop? When will justice finally take place? These questions are essential to answer in the Syrian case as quickly as possible. After more than two years of planned and intentional massacres, every conscious being in the world should feel this real tragedy, and speak up to demand the end of the killing of Syrians now.

In fact, the Syrians are not insects or animals. They are a live nation, and have a great history of prosperity, urbanization and freedom. Naturally, influenced by the butterfly effect of the arabic spring, the Syrian people dared to break the wall of silence, and they went out to ask only for their humanity back, after decades of oppression and humiliation. They demonstrated unarmed for more than one year, accepting all kinds of violence and intimidation peacefully. The right to defend one’s life is what forced them to start pointing their primitive weapons against the regime’s wild troops which were intentionally shooting with the aim to kill, not to intimidate.

History repeats itself often, so I am afraid to reach a point where all of us regret that we did not intervene forcefully to stop this massacre earlier. Look back to early history, and try to remind yourself about all the famous massacres or genocides in the long history of our strange humanity. You will figure out that everything happened due to ignorance and lack of interest or action. Then, what was the conclusion!? It was literally a disaster, a real one! So do we have to reach in Syria the level of Holocaust or the Rwandese genocide to drag the international community’s attention to act? Usually, they offer us the warm speeches and the nice words about the sympathy and the humanitarian help, but it is not enough at all. It needs a strong will and decisive intervention to solve it now. To be honest, I will be always confused and astonished by the different standards that people apply all over world!

The course of events in Syria, and since the beginning of the revolution in particular, has declined, although the situation has not reached the bottom yet. So it is not hard to understand that the events in Syria are expected to get worse, and the whole country is exposed to more destruction. This is highly dangerous, and will lead to a series of painful results in the coming future. Those results will affect the human being who is the most important element in this complicated equation, and will destroy the country’s normal structure, which will make it a real struggle for Syrian society to get back soon to normality after the end of these miserable circumstances. Furthermore, the surrounding region will be badly affected for sure. The area is complex and entangled in a lot of issues: ethnic origins, religions, economy…etc. Also, we have to take into consideration the number of the refugees who fled out to the surrounding countries, and their effect demographically and economically on these countries with time.

In the Syrian case, the international community doesn’t deal with a variation in the viewpoints between the two parties. The story is even more complicated. There is a regime that kills its people, and on the other hand, there are rebellious people seeking freedom and dignity. There is a system that uses all its forces, which were supposed to be at the Syrian’s service, to smash the unarmed people who are still begging for help from the international community, and actually what has been done yet remains minor. Unfortunately, we all know the dark side of history, when the international community neglected many massacres under many pretexts and then was forced to interfere, but it was always so late. This is what it seems will happen in the tragedy in Syria too. What a pity!

Orwa Al-Hussein

Member de la redaction valaisanne de Voix d’Exils




Le paradoxe

Justice libérale. Par Gégé

Conte réaliste en deux parties

1ère partie

Au début de chaque année, comme d’habitude, se réunissent les grands hommes des différentes régions de la planète. Ces grands hommes que Bacon appelle criminels et que Machiavel appelle entrepreneurs se retrouvent pour parler de tout : politique, économie-finance, réchauffement climatique et immigration pour, soi-disant, le bonheur de l’humanité.

Cette année, j’ai eu l’occasion d’assister à cette réunion et je vais essayer de vous en faire un compte-rendu. Je vais commencer par vous présenter les deux principaux groupes de participants.

Le premier vient d’une région de la planète qui est le berceau de l’humanité avec plus d’un milliard d’enfants mais considérée comme une terre marâtre. Ce groupe est constitué de brigands politiques, liberticides compétents pour les coups d’Etat, les guerres tribales et les génocides. Ceux-ci souffrent d’une anémie intellectuelle et d’une asthénie morale qui les empêchent de voir, d’entendre et de comprendre la souffrance de leurs peuples. Ce qui les caractérise le plus c’est leur cupidité et leur soif inextinguible du pouvoir.

Le second groupe vient d’un territoire du monde où il y a à manger et à boire pour tous, mais où il n’y a pas assez d’oxygène pour tout le monde. Dans ce groupe se retrouvent les meilleurs législateurs et les meilleurs concepteurs de traités de lois démocratiques, telles que la Convention de Genève ainsi que celle qui interdit l’esclavage.

Paradoxalement, dans les geôles de ces concepteurs, on retrouve des prisonniers dont le seul crime est d’avoir quitté une terre barbare qui les faisait travailler comme des esclaves pour un autre horizon où ils espèrent y trouver le bonheur.

Donc Alain Fournier avait raison quand il écrit que le paradoxe humain c’est que tout est dit et que rien n’est compris.

Pita

Membre de la rédaction valaisanne de Voix d’Exils