caterpillar talk

“People killin’, people dyin’,
Children hurt, hear them cryin’
Can you practice what you preach
Would you turn the other cheek?”
– Where is the Love?

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a dead monk’s badly bruised body in murky waters. a young protester shot dead, his life snuffed and his body in blood. a lifeless man with a bloody hole on his head. a dead japanese cameraman. when the monks and nuns of burma went to the streets to lead a peaceful demonstration against the junta and to ask for reforms, those were the answers they (and the world) got — crackdown and a round of atrocities.

the monasteries were emptied, the monks are nowhere to be found. news that manage to trickle from burma say countless arrests have been made, people live in more fear, and there is a death toll that does not stop at 9. with a brutal crackdown by the military, who knows where the count stops?

the things i saw through the pictures call to mind what happened in rwanda and cambodia. the world is made aware of what’s happening and does close to nothing ’til dead bodies pile up and up. the world watches… as people suffer and more and more of their human rights are violated.

the UN mission was not successful — the blunt term, of course, is ‘failed’. what is to be done? just watch?

people of the world, do something.